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

[Andrew Pielage <andrew.pielage@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - October 29th, 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 12 co-release coordinators: Jared Anderson, James Perkins

 

Eclipse Foundation: Tanja Obradovic

We have quorum (we need 5 representatives) 

Past business / action items:

• Approval is requested for the minutes from the September 3rd, 2025 meeting as drafted - Approved
• Approval is requested for the minutes from the September 17th, 2025 meeting as drafted - Approved
• Approval is requested for the minutes from the October 1st, 2025 meeting as drafted - Approved
• Approval is requested for the minutes from the October 15th, 2025 meeting as drafted - Approved

Agenda:

• Jakarta EE 12 Update [Jared Anderson]
• Dashboard
• M2 deadline: December 9th
• Ongoing tracking spreadsheet of specifications progressing through the JESP specification version lifecycle
• Ivar assigned as mentor for Agentic AI
• Creation Review shortly: 7-day ballot
• Specification Committee Chair Renewal
• Are there any objections to the current voting Specification Committee chair, Andrew Pielage, continuing to serve for another 12 months?
• No objections noted.
• Program Plan Recommendations for 2026 
• https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakarta.ee-spec.committee/msg03662.html 
• No changes from the spec committee
• https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1iUYMXgYBO5dacxgcK1pCCUoCbwv_SifYbmEjq9LuzS0/edit?usp=sharing 
• Discussion about retrospectives: James Perkins to follow up on if there are any actions from the EE11 Platform retrospective for us to follow up on yet
• Was an agenda item on previous calls but nothing came about from it
• Final call to review the slides: forward any requests to your steering committee representative
• Issue #55 - TCK Archive Format [Ed Bratt]
• Check in on Ed Bratt’s PR: pending
• Issue #83 - Clean up and clarify how to list TCK service releases on spec pages [Andrew Pielage]
• Check on progress of pull requests - set as a goal for M2
• All specifications done, was awaiting review (and fixing conflicts caused by new changes)
• Will resolve the conflicts and merge
• Issue #74 - TCK challenge automatic acceptance - [Ed Bratt]
• Check on progress of specifications - set as a goal for M2
• Issue #58 - TCK challenge templates [Andrew Pielage]
• Check on progress of pull requests - set as a goal for M2
• Another poke required 
• Some have conflicts
• Issue #82 - Consistent approach for TCK challenge exclusions [Ed Bratt]
• Carry over from February 19th: TCK Process should be updated with something akin to Scott Starks suggestion.
• Issue #85 - Document Jenkins Maven Publication Jobs [Emily Jiang]
• Specifications having wiki pages (or equivalent documentation) goal for M2
• Needs to be brought up in the Platform call and/or poke projects leads via email
• Issue #86 - Simplify Compatibility Certification Requests [Ivar Grimstad]
• Example to be created
• Ivar to reach out to understand the complaints
• 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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Andrew Pielage
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