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[osgi-dev] Minutes from yesterday's Specification committee call (04/11/26)
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  • Thread-topic: Minutes from yesterday's Specification committee call (04/11/26)
Hi all,

Here are the meeting minutes from yesterday's specification call

Attendees:

* Guido Grune
* Stefan Bischof
* Christoph Läubrich
* James Hunt
* Tim Ward

Discussion:

* Specification repository migration (Stefan)
    * Stefan walked through the new repositories and the release process
    * Proposed release plans presented

* Typed Events 1.1 final specification chapter review (Tim)
    * Issues and PRs reviewed, final decisions taken
    * Awaiting dependency releases, otherwise ready for RC1

* Feature Launcher (Mark)
    * Work progressing

* Service Loader / SPI
    * Discussion subgroups are making progress
    * Requirements document first draft complete and merged, development will continue
    * Delegation hooks proposed in the framework
        * Useful in general, James would consider using them if portable
        * Christoph to raise the issue on the mailing list

* DS 1.6
    * Some changes proposed for 1.6
    * We need to agree how to proceed with DS 1.6 in general

Issues and PRs

* Framework
    * https://github.com/osgi/org.osgi.framework/pull/76 Restructure Require-Bundle chapter (split packages, re-export, trade-offs)
        * General agreement, reviews to follow
    * https://github.com/osgi/org.osgi.framework/pull/75 Requirements document for Java SPI support in the framework
        * See Service Loader / SPI above

Review comments on the following PRs are very welcome before the next call, so that we can use the call time efficiently:

* Resolver
    * https://github.com/osgi/org.osgi.service.resolver/pull/45 Optional Diagnostics API to explain resolution results
    * https://github.com/osgi/org.osgi.service.resolver/pull/44 Allow resolve contexts to provide a logger to the resolver
    * https://github.com/osgi/org.osgi.service.resolver/pull/43 Resolvers must be discoverable via Java ServiceLoader
* ServiceLoader
    * https://github.com/osgi/org.osgi.service.serviceloader/pull/34 Clarify Mediator must register providers of lazy bundles
    * https://github.com/osgi/org.osgi.service.serviceloader/pull/33 TCK: skip mediator stop/restart check in testAutoRegister when mediator is the system bundle
* Features
    * https://github.com/osgi/osgi/pull/974 Propose osgi.feature namespace for representing Features as Resources

AOB

* Call time
    * The call will move two hours earlier, to 1500 CET/1400 GMT (moving with DST)

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Thanks to all of you who made it,
Tim Ward
Specification Committee co-chair, Eclipse Working Group

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