[jakarta.ee-spec] Jakarta EE Spec Committee Approved Meeting Minutes - A

[Andrew Pielage <andrew.pielage@xxxxxxxx>]

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - August 5th, 2026

Attendees (present in bold):

Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu - Takahiro Nagao

Emily Jiang - IBM - Tom Watson

Dmitry Kornilov - Oracle, Robert Patrick

Andrew Pielage (chair)  - Payara

David Blevins - Tomitribe - Jean-Louis Monteiro, Cesar Hernandez

Ivar Grimstad - PMC Representative

Arjan Tijms - Omnifish OU - Elected Participant Member Representative 

Werner Keil - Committer Member

Jun Qian - Primeton Information Technologies - Enterprise Member

Zhai Luchao -  Shandong Cvicse Middleware Co. - Enterprise Member

Guest - Jakarta EE 12 co-release coordinators: Jared Anderson, James Perkins

 

Eclipse Foundation: Tanja Obradovic

Past business / action items:

• Approval is requested for the minutes from the July 8th, 2026 meeting as drafted - Approved

Agenda:

• Jakarta EE 12 Update [Jared Anderson]
• Dashboard
• Platform Minutes
• Rest pending some reviews - M1 releasing soon hopefully
• September 30th for Core Profile unlikely - moving out to 4th quarter
• CDI 5.0 release review pull request up for review - ballot soon
• Ongoing tracking spreadsheet of specifications progressing through the JESP specification version lifecycle
• Check on Progress review for Jakarta Config
• Check on progress of Termination Review for Jakarta RPC
• Two-week lazy consensus pre-termination review period started, ending 27th of May
• Andrew to send termination request to the EMO and PMC
• Issue #74 - TCK challenge automatic acceptance - [Andrew Pielage]
• Check in on progress of pull requests
• Issue #85 - Document Jenkins Maven Publication Jobs [Emily Jiang]
• Carry over from previous call: Needs to be brought up in the Platform call and/or poke projects leads via email. Emily to send an email to the spec leads mailing list. Add a checklist item to the spec review checklist
• Emily: I sent this email on July 8th.
• Check in on progress
• Issue #83 Follow-up - Clean Up And Clarify How To List TCK Service Releases On Specification Pages [Andrew Pielage]
• Carry over from previous call: Template is missing
• https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/pull/902 
• Discuss any further amendments and actions
• PRs merged - issue complete
• Promoting TCKs is a collective effort [Ivar Grimstad]
• Carry over from previous call
• Probably worth doing a refresher course when there are more members present
• Can we also document them in our GitHub repo? https://github.com/jakartaee/specification-committee 
• Tools repository where the scripts exist: https://github.com/jakartaee/specification-tools/tree/master/promotion 
• Timeboxed demonstration when we have time and enough members present
• Todo (ivar): Add a link to the CI instance and job with a couple of bullet points explaining it
• Issue #55 - TCK Archive Format
• Check for any feedback
• On hold for now. Waiting for concrete ask from MicroProfile
• Review other open issues:
• Determine which issues to label as “enhancement” and add to our board
• Close issues which are no longer relevant or have been dealt with
• Issue #89 - SHA512
• Is there any reason why we shouldn’t allow this?
• Issue #48 - Dependency Injection Name
• Nobody is sure what is meant by this. A question has been asked, and we will close next call if we do not get a response.
• Issue #45
• This seems to have been resolved? There was a comment asking if it could be closed two years ago.
• Closing
• https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/pull/918 
• A question was asked of whether we should allow this in its current state where three milestones are being published (M1, M2, and M3)
• Do we only want to publish the latest?
• Are we happy to just tidy it up when the final release is published?
• Ivar to comment on the pull request that we don’t normally include all milestones, but it’s fine for now (while in development).