Minutes of Jakarta EE Working Group Steering Committee Meeting
on April 17, 2018
Meeting at 12:30 PM EDT
https://eclipse.zoom.us/j/140846579
Steering Committee members:
Dan Bandera - IBM
Will Lyons - Oracle
Steve Millidge - Payara
Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu
David Blevins - Tomitribe
Mark Little - Red Hat
Eclipse Foundation:
Mike Milinkovich - Eclipse Foundation
1) Review of minutes from prior meeting (April 10)
The April 10 meeting minutes were reviewed and
approved for distribution to the Jakarta EE Working Group (jakarta.ee-wg@xxxxxxxxxxx)
where they will be archived and publicly accessible. Emails to
jakarta.ee-steering@xxxxxxxxxxx
are not archived and are not public.
Paul White will update the calendar invite (if required) with
the final zoom URL (I believe the URL above is correct). He
will also send out invites to the marketing meeting, and doodle
the spec mailing list to schedule the spec meeting.
2) Election process and schedule for Jakarta EE working group
committees
a) Election process
See Paul White's email to jakarta.ee-wg@xxxxxxxxxx
dated April 9 @10:07AM EDT.
Nomination period: April 23 - May 1 (self nominations are
welcome)
Election period: May 6 - May 13
Winning candidates announced: May 14
b) Specification Committee
This committee must begin meeting to start defining
a specification process. From my perspective this is the
primary open issue to establishing a forward looking process
and community.
A doodle poll will be created to schedule spec
committee meetings.
A first request to the Spec Committee is to define
requirements for the specification process, in addition to
defining the process itself.
c) Item from last time - Technical Direction
"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."
Is there an immediate requirement for internal direction or
external communication on this topic at this time?
Mike Milinkovich's view is that the Steering Committee does
not own the technical direction. There was an open-ended,
informal discussion on what responsibilities fall into PMC vs.
Spec Committee, etc. No immediate requirement for resolution
was identified.
The group agreed that a positive next step would be to define
what a technical direction is. I will propose a definition
for next meeting.
3) Status of Oracle Contributions
https://www.eclipse.org/ee4j/status.php
a) The Jersey initial contribution has been provided to
the Eclipse team.
b) Per Dmitry, the following batch 3 proposals are
submitted for public review. I assume this means all of
these project proposals will be posted for public review this
week, and this will be reflected at the EE4J Project
Bootstrapping link above.
Eclipse GlassFish
Eclipse Project for Interceptors
Eclipse Project for JCA?
Eclipse Project for EJB
Eclipse Project for JACC
Eclipse Project for Servlet
Eclipse Project for JSP
Eclipse Project for JASPIC
Eclipse Jakarta EE TCK
Red Hat lead confirmation for "Eclipse Project for Stable
EE4J APIs" proposal has been received. It should be ready for
submission as well.
This will make for a total of 34 projects which have been
initiated (20% or more at the link above), including GlassFish
and TCK.
c) The EE4J Project Bootstrapping link above still
included project names that are obsolete as of April 17.
This will be fixed by Oracle and Eclipse Foundation ASAP.
5) Recruitment of Enterprise members, updating messaging.
No Enterprise members signed up to date.
EF ask is for vendors to re-engage with Enterprise customer
prospects after next week.
EF will share a flyer (one-pager re: WG) and update/rebrand
the starting pitch.
6) Update on marketing activities.
Launch process is going well:
- new eclipse.org website (will differentiate Eclipse from
projects) this week
- on April 24 for Jakarta EE:
- press release 5AM EDT April 24
- press articles (dozen interviews scheduled)
- survey results asset and survey press release
- Jakarta EE website and logo 12 midnight the night
prior to launch
- complementary blogs (requested to link to the
Jakarta EE blogs and survey) - EF link to blog URLs they
received from members
- 4 of 5 planned analyst briefings completed
The meeting was adjourned at this point. Next meeting is at
12:30 PM EDT on Tuesday April 24.
Will
