| [jakarta.ee-spec] Jakarta EE Spec Committee Approved Meeting Minutes - February 24th, 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: 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 February 10th meeting as drafted - Approved.
Agenda:
Welcome new Specification Committee, Enterprise Member rep, Jun Qian from Primeton!
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
[Request] Implementation Neutrality presentation and proposed next steps. Relevant to these conversations
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.]
David was able to get part way through his presentation, we will continue on the next call. The relevant agenda items noted above were also deferred.
Alignment on spec committee guidance on Service releases
Update the JESP for Service releases
Kevin will send out a resolution and call for voting on the mailing list for approval, once approved it will be over to the Steering Committee for ratification.
Modify the Operations Guide for Service releases
Update to follow vote on on the JESP.
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.
Topic deferred until the next call
Review and discuss Jakarta EE 9 Specification Committee EE 9 Retrospective
See follow-up action for the Release Simplification topic.
Specification Committee’s input for the in the Jakarta EE Program Plan - Quarterly Progress
Simplify Release Process objective- 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.
Check the latest resource utilization reports. Not clear we are resource starved at this point. 12 hours → 6 hours with more resources.
The TCK resource reports are here.
Can extra resources be allocated during heavy release periods? Can resources be allocated from AWS, Google Cloud or Azure?
Paul to set up a call with Scott Marlow and Eclipse Foundation Infra team
The committee will review the retrospective and identify items for Q2, Q3 and Q4.
Kevin and Paul to review the actions in the retrospective and release simplification notes to identify themes and to organize the items. Further discussion and alignment to proceed on the mailing list.
C. Advance Implementation Neutrality - See slide 7
Also see row 13 in the Program Plan tracking spreadsheet
Topic deferred to the next call
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
Topic deferred until the next call