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

[Paul Buck <paul.buck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The minutes for the March 23rd Specification Committee call are below and are also available here. Please review and be ready for approval during our call on April 6th.

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - March 23rd, 2022

Attendees (present in bold):

Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu

Tom Watson - IBM - Emily Jiang

Ed Bratt - Oracle - Dmitry Kornilov

Andrew Pielage - Payara - Petr Aubrecht

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

Zhai Luchao -  Shandong Cvicse Middleware Co. - Enterprise Member

 

Eclipse Foundation: Tanja Obradovic, Paul Buck (chair)

Guests: Scott Stark, Scott Marlow

Past business / action items:

• Approval is requested for the meeting minutes from the February 23rd, 2022 meeting as drafted - Approved.

• Approval is requested for the meeting minutes from the March 9th, 2022 meeting as drafted - Approved.

Agenda:

• Ongoing tracking spreadsheet of individual specs progressing through the JESP

• Jakarta EE 10 Release Review - Candidate specifications

• PRs https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/pulls

• Release Plan https://eclipse-ee4j.github.io/jakartaee-platform/jakartaee10/JakartaEE10ReleasePlan

• Wiki https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-platform/wiki/JakartaEE10

• Jakarta EE repositories proposal for specification and implementation projects [Ivar]

• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Gkl0UeHH9L8OSvSNCk2zwW0vWofa_3uBKjovKd212lQ/edit#slide=id.g10dcc1a79c5_0_40

• Continue discussing the proposal and align on next steps

Committee accepted the proposal as documented and presented. 

Next steps, before proceeding to ballot:

• Add text to explain proposal to the presentation

• Prepare the draft resolution text

• Document guidance to projects to when to (and if) to re-align to this proposed structure.

• General guidance on the authorized usage of the jakarta package namespace governed by the Jakarta EE Working Group and the JESP

• Proposed JESP update authored to provide guidance, see https://github.com/jakartaee/JESP/pull/8

• PR was approved by the Jakarta EE Specification Committee, see https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakarta.ee-spec/msg02258.html

• The Specification Committee to refered the JESP update to the Steering Committee for their approval in their call on March 15th. The Steering Committee decided to put the proposed update for a vote in their next call on March 29th.