| [jakarta.ee-spec.committee] Review for approval: Jakarta EE Specification Committee Meeting Minutes - March 10th, 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
Jun Qian - Primeton - Enterprise Member
Eclipse Foundation: 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 February 24th meeting as drafted - Approved.
Agenda:
Ongoing tracking spreadsheet of individual specs progress through the JESP
Jakarta EE 9.1 Plan Review ballot complete and approved
Jakarta EE 10 - Deadline for projects to start Plan Reviews is April 15th
Jakarta Activation 2.0.1 SR PR ready for review
Kevin Sutter agreed to mentor this one
Specification Committee’s input - Jakarta EE Program Plan - Quarterly Progress
Release Simplification (slide 6)
See draft input from Kevin and Paul based on Jakarta EE 9.1 retrospective & the release simplification notes
The Quarterly Plan items for Release Simplification were presented to the Committee, progress will be tracked in subsequent calls.
JESP Guide for Spec Projects [Ivar] https://deploy-preview-1086--jakartaee.netlify.app/committees/specification/guide/
The proposal to create the Guide to the Jakarta EE Specification Process was supported by the Committee.
Allocating additional resources for the Platform TCK [Scott M]
Topic was deferred to the next call on March 24th.
Advance Implementation Neutrality (slide 7)
Continue with the presentation on potentially relevant context for the Advance Implementation Neutrality initiatives [David Blevins]
Marking the implementations used for ratification [A.]
Listing or not “other” implementations [B.]
Advance Implementation Neutrality - See slide 7 [C.]
Health and activity of our specification projects [D.].
A link to the recording of David’s presentation and subsequent discussion is below:
Access Passcode: YY@!3dRn
A copy of the presentation is here.
Agenda items A., B., C. and D. were not covered in the call, they can now be progressed with the context provided by David for consideration. They were not covered in the call and can be pursued on the mailing list and in the next Committee meeting.
A. Marking the implementation on a spec page to denote it was used for the ratification ballot
Proposal: Option 3: Link separately with the other resources associated with the spec
Also see jakarta.ee-spec mailing list archive.
B. Note: In previous discussions the Specification Committee decided to not list “other” compatible implementations of the Platform or Web Profile specifications, a link will be added to the respective spec project pages to the Jakarta EE Compatible Products page.
Specification Committee’s input for the in the Jakarta EE Program Plan - Quarterly Progress
C. Advance Implementation Neutrality - See slide 7
Also see row 13 in the Program Plan tracking spreadsheet
D. Identify specification projects that are in need of additional committers. Action item from the February 9th Steering Committee meeting - See slide 18
For project activity stats see https://www.eclipse.org/projects/tools/wg/jakarta.php
Compatible Implementations and Compatible Products primer for website [Tanja]
The Committee was reminded that this primer was going to be published on the Specification Committee page on the Jakarta EE website.