[jakartaee-platform-dev] Jakarta EE 9 Milestone release?

["Kevin Sutter" <sutter@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,
Based on Steve's
recent update on Glassfish, we're making some fantastic progress towards
Jakarta EE 9!  Although this is promising news from a CI viewpoint
and we're also making progress on the TCKs, it's looking less and less
likely that we will be able to produce a final release of Jakarta EE 9
by June (our original goal).  FYI, a final release of Jakarta EE 9
would require the final Specifications, final APIs, final TCKs, and final
Compatible Implementations (CI), along with the results of the TCKs running
against the CIs.  So, even though we are making great progress, that
is a lot of work to be done by June...

To that end, we've
been thinking about producing an M1 (Milestone) release for Jakarta EE
9 in the June timeframe.  We have already produced an RC1 for the
Jakarta EE 9 APIs.  But, this Jakarta EE 9-M1 would include the current
state of all the Specs, APIs, TCKs, and CIs.  Before we could actually
produce this M1, we would need a functional, running Glassfish 6.0.0-M1
along with a running Platform TCK 9.0.0-M1.  Not sure if we want to
set a bar for the TCK success rate, or just advertise where we are at with
running the TCK.  For example, do we want to wait until we get to
75% successful before claiming an M1 release?  Or, do we use a date
cutoff and when we announce the M1 release, we also announce our current
TCK success rate (whatever that happens to be)?

This would need
to be a coordinated effort across all of the Jakarta EE projects, so I'm
looking for input and buy-in before we start down this path.  Producing
an M1 release for Jakarta EE 9 would show all of our positive progress.
 And, it would give our potential stack products (IDEs, frameworks,
etc) a useable release to start experimenting with the new jakarta namespace.
 Comments and suggestions welcome.  Thanks!

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Kevin Sutter 
STSM, MicroProfile and Jakarta EE architect @ IBM
e-mail:  sutter@xxxxxxxxxx     Twitter:  @kwsutter
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