Executive Summary
Please push out a release to maven central of your API, sources, and javadoc jars with the version number major.minor.micro-M1 where major.minor.micro is
ideally what you intend to include in EE 11, but really can be any number you want that is semVer greater than your current release. Every other component spec in EE 11 has already done this. We are holding the entire EE 11 M1 release waiting for jax-rs.
Details
Please excuse the fact that my first email to your community in my role as EE 11 co-release coordinator is so intrusive and demanding. As you know, Arjan and I
are trying to do something that hasn't been done before during Jakarta EE release cycles: produce milestone releases on the way to the final release. The decision to produce milestone releases in this way was recorded in the 2023-09-19 platform
project meeting minutes. The latest details about this plan are described in this email I sent to spec-project-leads on Wednesday 2023-12-13. This email links to the
latest release plan. In this plan, REST is in Wave 5.
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We are working on a Milestone 1 release right now. This release is intended to include the latest available spec artifacts for all component specs, released to maven central with -M1 at the end
of the version number.
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We plan to do a Milestone 2 release after the end of January 2024.
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M2 will have the final versions of all Wave 1, 2, 3, 4 specs for EE 11.
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We plan to do a Milestone 3 release after the end of February 2024.
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M3 will have the final versions of all Wave 5 specs, INCLUDING REST
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We ask for your final artifacts for release review no later than 2024-02-29.
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We plan to do a Milestone 4 release after the end of March 2024.
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M4 will have the final versions of all Wave 6 and 7 specs.
Any spec, including jax-rs, is free to produce as many releases as they want, whenever they want, and we'll just pick up the latest available one at the time we
need to do a milestone release.
We leave the door open to do further milestone releases, but we expect that M4 will function as a release candidate.
Thanks,
Ed and Arjan