Minutes of Jakarta EE Working Group Steering Committee Meeting
on Apr 10, 2018
Attendees (Steering Committee Members)
Dan Bandera - IBM
Will Lyons - Oracle
Steve Millidge - Payara
Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu
David Blevins - Tomitribe
1) Review of Working Group Process
Referred to document with general advice on governance from
Paul White of the Eclipse Foundation:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1a2GyMNSz81xDjiOJo51wTxAZWel8F5cPyarMdd0pNKM/edit?ts=5ac3ab03
a) Steering Committee membership is as
follows:
Steering Committee
Dan Bandera - IBM
Will Lyons - Oracle
Mark Little - Red Hat
Steve Millidge - Payara
Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu
David Blevins - Tomitribe
Representatives of the Eclipse Foundation will attend
these meetings as well.
b) Steering committee mailing list - the following will be
working shortly:
jakarta.ee-steering.committee@xxxxxxxxxxx
c) Voting
Decisions of the Steering Committee are
determined by vote.
Guidance from the Eclipse Foundation team was that Working
Group votes typically require a majority vote, and
referenced the Working Group Charter document. The
group accepted this guidance.
[Note: The Working Group Charter document describes that
some votes require a super majority per the Working Group
Charter document. I don't see mention of non
super-majority requirements.
https://www.eclipse.org/org/workinggroups/jakarta_ee_charter.php
I assume we will proceed with majority votes until a
concern is raised.)
d) It was voted and agreed unanimously that alternates and
experts nominated by Steering Committee members are welcome
to attend Steering Committee meetings and will be included
on the jakarta.ee-steering.committee mailing list. Note
that only there is only one vote per Steering Committee
membership.
A/I: Steering Committee members should send Paul
White of the Eclipse Foundation a list of alternates and
experts to be included on this mailing list.
e) Will Lyons was nominated and voted unanimously to be
secretary for Steering Committee meetings.
f) It was voted unanimously that Steering Committee meetings
will be held weekly at 12:30 PM EDT via Web conference for
the immediate future.
g) Scheduling face to face meetings was tabled for a future
discussion.
h) Posting meeting minutes
Typical procedure for Eclipse Working Groups is
that meeting minutes are drafted, and the group approves,
edits or abridges the minutes in the following meeting by
majority vote. Minutes are then be forwarded to the
Working Group email list, and archived at the EF Web site.
If there is a need to discuss topics that cannot be
included in public meeting minutes, the group can vote to
go in executive session and conduct discussions that are
not included in public meeting minutes.
2) Election process and schedule for Jakarta EE working group
committees
Reviewed email from Paul White to the Jakarta EE Working
Group on April 9 describing the process for nominating and
electing representatives to the Steering Committee, the
Specification Committee, and the Marketing and Brand
Committee. The elected positions are to represent each
of the Influencer Members, Participant Members, and
Committer Members. This communication will be sent to
ee4j-community (or the jarkata.ee-community) mailing list.
3) Jakarta EE Logo
Voting on the logo has closed. The winner will be
announced no later than Friday April 27.
4) High-level vision statement for Jakarta EE
It was recommended and unanimously agreed that the
Working Group publish such a statement that has been under
discussion no later than than April 27. This will be
published by the EF with Working Group input.
5) Status of Oracle contributions
Oracle has invited Working Group members with bi-weekly
meetings to provide a detailed review and update on the
status of the Oracle contribution process. The group
requested that these meeting continue, on an as needed
basis when there are significant updates, milestones or
decision points. It was requested that the Working Group
be invited.
There was a discussion of which group owns the long term
technical direction for the Jakarta EE platform, beyond
the initial Oracle Java EE 8 contribution, and beyond the
individual directions established by the individual EE4J
projects. The PMC, the Spec Committee, and the Steering
Committee may all have roles to play It was agreed that
the discussion be tabled for now, and that we return to it
in the next Steering Committee meeting.
The group reviewed the status page being managed at:
https://www.eclipse.org/ee4j/status.php
Updates included:
- The Mojarra initial contribution has been made.
- Oracle hopes to have the Jersey initial contribution
submitted this week.
Oracle is proposing an additional set of projects for its
next "batch" of contributions. The PMC reviewed 10
project proposals this week. Additional committers need to
be added for some projects. 3 proposals are ready for
submission as of April 10. The proposals include a
project proposal which will include TCKs. Oracle hopes
to submit these proposals for review by the end of the
week of April 9 or early the following week, and hopes to
have these project proposals available for community
review no later than April 27.
Dmitry Kornilov requested an official allowance to use
the Jakarta EE name in EE4J project names such as “Eclipse
Jakarta EE TCK” and “Eclipse Project for Stable Jakarta EE
APIs” and in groups.io domain, replacing javaee name.
This request was unanimously approved.
[Brief private discussion at end of meeting abridged]
The meeting adjourned at this point.
The next meeting will be April 17 @12:30 PM EDT.
Will Lyons
Secretary
