[jakarta.ee-spec] Jakarta EE Spec Committee Approved Meeting Minutes - F

[Andrew Pielage <andrew.pielage@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - February 19th, 2025

Attendees (present in bold):

Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu

Emily Jiang - IBM - Tom Watson

Ed Bratt - Oracle - Dmitry Kornilov

Andrew Pielage (chair)  - Payara - Petr Aubrecht

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

Ivar Grimstad - PMC Representative

Marcelo Ancelmo - Participant Member -  Abraham Marin-Perez

Werner Keil - Committer Member

Jun Qian - Primeton Information Technologies - Enterprise Member

Zhai Luchao -  Shandong Cvicse Middleware Co. - Enterprise Member

Guest - Jakarta EE 11 co-release coordinators: Ed Burns, Jared Anderson

 

Eclipse Foundation: Tanja Obradovic

Past business / action items:

• Approval is requested for the minutes from the February 5th, 2025 meeting as drafted - approved

Agenda:

• Catch up on the Jakarta EE 11 Release Plan [Ed Burns]
• EE 11 - Prioritized backlog · Jakarta EE11 TCK Release (github.com) and Jakarta EE11 TCK Release board  
• User Guide is in final stages of readiness
• Web Profile release on target for Q1
• Date-for-a-date for Platform after Web Profile is released
• Catch up on the Jakarta EE 12 Release Plan [Jared Anderson]
• New specification discussions ongoing
• Config discussions in both Jakarta EE and MicroProfile
• One approach would be to consume the existing specification
• Another approach would be to copy it
• Query being proposed as a new specification
• A HTTP specification also being discussed, as it is fractured across existing specifications
• Not related to the HTTP client contained in Java SE
• For new specifications, see “Creation Review” under https://jakarta.ee/committees/specification/guide/ for the process
• Also see https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PmhOqQGl6YfR-QHr-97QKbZcMo-L4ItQ14o3um6ix4E/edit?tab=t.0#heading=h.qiqurtgvrrco 
• Ongoing tracking spreadsheet of specifications progressing through the JESP specification version lifecycle
• Check on Release, Creation, and Progress Reviews for:
• Jakarta NoSQL 
• https://jakarta.ee/specifications/nosql/
• https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakarta.ee-spec/msg02795.html [Progress Review, 10.2022]
• Issue for progress review created: https://github.com/jakartaee/nosql/issues/185
• Skip progress review and go directly release review: https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/pull/793
• Previous issue resolved, in review
• Jakarta Config 
• https://jakarta.ee/specifications/config/
• https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakarta.ee-spec/msg02838.html [Plan Review, 01.2023]
• Issue for progress review created: https://github.com/jakartaee/config/issues/277 
• Discussion on mailing list ongoing
• Jakarta RPC 
• https://jakarta.ee/specifications/rpc/
• https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakarta.ee-spec/msg02129.html [Creation Review, 01.2022]
• Issue for progress/plan review created: https://github.com/jakartaee/rpc/issues/3 
• No update yet
• Asked about for EE12 platform - no response
• Jakarta Logging
• Carry over from Jan 22nd call:
• Christian has been asked to create the Creation Review pull request
• No response yet
• Jakarta Portlet
• Liferay is willing to donate and lead the effort of donating this specification
• A question came up about the licensing of their Compatible Implementation
• If the Eclipse Foundation Board approves LGPL-2.1, are we okay with it being added to the current list of: EPL-2.0, APACHE-2.0, MIT, BSD-3-Clause?
• LGPL requires you to publish any changes made
• Ed Bratt’s comment: historically not preferred
• Jakarta Data 1.1
• https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/pull/795 
• Issue #55
• Check in on Ed Bratt’s document: link
• Check in on Ed Bratt’s PR: pending
• Scott Stark has made it so the JARs get published to Maven Central
• The zip file SHA256 should be correct
• The unified License.md file (containing the EFTL and EPL) will be included in each individual JAR
• https://github.com/jakartaee/platform-tck/pull/1955 
• Issue #83 - Clean up and clarify how to list TCK service releases on spec pages
• Carry over from Jan 22nd call:
• Action: Specification mentors to create pull requests to https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications to update their pages
• Action: Ivar to update the template: https://github.com/jakartaee/specification-committee/blob/master/spec_page_template.md 
• Issue #74
• Email: https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakarta.ee-spec.committee/msg03564.html 
• Check in on feedback and agree resolution
• Accepted as-is
• An issue will be created to track this
• Issue #58
• Committee members encouraged to create the pull requests and not just leave it to Emily!
• Issue #81
• Not discussed
• New issue: #82
• TCK Process should be updated with something akin to Scott Starks suggestion.
• Ed Bratt to take this task
• Review other open issues:
• Determine which issues to label as “enhancement” and add to our board
• Close issues which are no longer relevant or have been dealt with

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