Werner, yes, I mean the Jakarta EE platform. And no, it is definitively NOT done like that. There are some JARs currently NOT uploaded to Maven central while the ballot has successfully passed already (I checked that yesterday). And, some projects went into ballot with MRs/RCs definitively. If that wouldn't be the case, Steve never would have had a need to ask and I never have had to explain.
-Markus
Markus,
With "Jakarta EE itself" I assume you mean the platforms like Full or Web Platform?
What you mentioned is done just like that at the moment. ;-)
All the individual specs were voted on before the Platform ballots took place.
Some were done relatively "Long before" others only a few weeks ago, but all happened before the platforms.
The standalone specs are also separate and only referenced from the platform specs in ways like
"The Jakarta Annotations specification can be found at https://jakarta.ee/specifications/annotations . "
Werner
I'd like to extend Ivar's answer by one point: Specs can publish many releases within the lifetime of one Jakarta EE release, hence their pushing is always unrelated of Jakarta EE and typically should be done *long before* Jakarta EE is iteself starting its ballot. In fact, what people "out there" expect is that the ballot for Jakarta EE is basing on already published specs, not basing on Milestones or Candidates. Looking on Jakarta EE from that point makes it clear that EE 8 and EE 9 enforced unneccessary and unwanted waiting, and we should never again without anything that successfully passed a ballot. These are not chapters of a book, these are standalone documents.
-Markus
Thanks I will get the checklist steps done now then
Hi Steve,
That is part of the competition steps for the specification project team after their ballot is passed. Should be done for each component specification as soon as possible after the ballot completes.
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Ivar Grimstad
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