[jakarta.ee-spec.committee] Review for approval: Jakarta EE Specificatio

[Paul Buck <paul.buck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The minutes for the January 27th Specification Committee call are below and are also available here. Please review and be ready for approval during our call on February 10th.

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - January 27th, 2021

Attendees (present in bold):

Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu

Dan Bandera - IBM - Kevin Sutter, Tom Watson (guest)

Ed Bratt - Oracle - Dmitry Kornilov

Andrew Pielage - Payara - Matt Gill

Scott Stark - Red Hat - Mark Little, Scott Marlow

David Blevins - Tomitribe - Jean-Louis Monteiro, Cesar Hernandez

Ivar Grimstad - PMC Representative

Marcelo Ancelmo - Participant Member - Martijn Verburg

Werner Keil - Committer Member

Scott (Congquan) Wang - Primeton - Enterprise Member 

 

Eclipse Foundation: Wayne Beaton, Tanja Obradovic, Paul Buck (chair)

References: JESP, Spec Committee page including approved meeting minutes

Past business / action items:

• Approval is requested for the meeting minutes from the January 13th meeting as drafted - Approved.

Agenda:

• Ongoing tracking spreadsheet of individual specs progress through the JESP

• Jakarta EE 9.1 Platform Spec, Plan Review update [Kevin]

• https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-platform/pull/299 

Public ballot of the 9.1 release plan to follow Steering Committee’s endorsement to proceed to that step

• Review and discuss Jakarta EE 9 Specification Committee EE 9 Retrospective

The in-progress retrospective document was sent to the jakartaee-spec-project-leads and jakarta.ee-spec mailing lists for additional community input

• Establish plan to provide the Specification Committee’s input for the Simplify Release Process objective in the Jakarta EE Program Plan - Quarterly Progress

• See slides 5 & 6

For Q1 this item was added - Infra required for concurrent testing Java 8 and Java 11 support starting w/ EE 9.1. See draft proposal from Scott Marlow is  here.

The committee will review the retrospective and identify items for Q2, Q3 and Q4.

• Continue working on the Release Review requirement for a Service (Patch) Release

• PR for the updated JESP - https://github.com/jakartaee/jakarta.ee/pull/1050

• PR to Modify ops guide for a Service Release - https://github.com/jakartaee/jakarta.ee/pull/1047

• Issue created against the EFSP - https://github.com/EclipseFdn/EFSP/issues/29

• Refine the definition of “significant” in the EFSP to be “No functionality changes whatsoever to the specification” in the JESP. Consider applying the condition to just the specification document.

• Is a ballot always required? The Specification Committee acts in its best judgement whether a ballot is needed.

Changes to the EFSP regarding Service Release will be contemplated in the next rev of the process. 

• Open issues to the EFSP as required

Wayne to investigate leveraging an “errata” approach to handling no-functionality-changes

• Note: Call on February 10th is at 2:00PM UTC / 6:00AM PD / 9:00AM ET / 3:00PM CET / 10:00PM CT / 11:00PM JT

• Calls now alternate every two weeks at 17:00 and 14:00 UTC