I kinda agree with Jan, though I would like to add that if we're at a point where we're sure that the tests for the Full Profile would not change anymore, we can at least start the ballot.
The ballots for the component specs also did not all start at the same time.
A completed ballot does not have to mean a (formal) release, right?
FWIW, from a marketing communication perspective we would almost
certainly only do a single press release and PR/AR push. So from a
communications PoV there is little value in releasing the profiles
independently.
I don't mean to imply that this is that big of a deal, but wanted
to provide an additional datapoint to the discussion.
On 2022-07-19 5:40 a.m., Emily Jiang
via jakartaee-platform-dev wrote:
I also think these three releases (platform, web and core
profile) should be independent. We can start the Jakarta EE 10
platform release ballot since it is ready. I do agree that we
need to make the ballot very explicit.
I agree that this should be discussed at the
platform call. But I believe that Web and Core profiles
shouldn't block releasing the Full profile. Jakarta EE 10
has been delayed already for a long time and it'sbetter to
release the Full profile alone rather than wait for Web and
Core profiles to release everything together.
I'll update the specs to final and
update the PR after tomorrow's platform call to make
sure there are no outstanding issues and then I can
complete the other tasks. The only concern I have
about the platform ballot is the changes needed for
the concurrency tck of the web profile. We need to be
clear what we are doing to resolve this, so it will be
a topic for tomorrow's platform call.
Can somebody from the platform cmmitters
have a look if they can do any of the above
and check whether something else must be done
before going to the ballot?
We need Scott who originally raised the
specification PR to update the PR and move it
out of the draft mode. If Scott isn't around
(he might be on holiday these days), can
somebody else raise a new PR so that we can
get all things ready for a ballot?