[jakartaee-spec-project-leads] ACTION: Spec Project Leads must read and

[Ed Burns <Edward.Burns@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Executive Summary

Here's the Jakarta EE 11 release plan as of 2023-12-12.

 

Release review dates

• Wave 1, 2, 3, 4 specs to have release review by 2024-01-24.

o    Wave 1

• Jakarta Annotations

Wave 2

• Jakarta _expression_ Language
• Jakarta Interceptors
• Jakarta Lang Model (may be released with Jakarta CDI [Core] in wave 3)

Wave 3

• Jakarta Contexts and Dependency Injection

Wave 4

• Jakarta JSON Binding
• Jakarta Mail
• Jakarta SOAP with Attachments
• Jakarta XML Binding
• Wave 5 specs to have release review by 2024-02-29.

o    Wave 5

• Jakarta Authorization
• Jakarta Batch
• Jakarta Persistence
• Jakarta RESTful Web Services
• Jakarta Server Pages
• Jakarta Servlet
• Jakarta Validation
• Jakarta WebSocket
• Jakarta XML Web Services

• Wave 6, 7 specs release to have review by 2024-03-29.

o    Wave 6

• Jakarta Authentication
• Jakarta Concurrency
• Jakarta Faces
• Jakarta Messaging
• Jakarta Standard Tag Library
• Jakarta Platform Core Profile

Wave 7

• Jakarta Security
• Jakarta Data

ACTION: I require all spec leads to respond to this email stating they acknowledge and accept these dates, or, if they cannot accept these dates, to propose a date they can accept. If you do the latter, note that you may be putting the EE 11 schedule at risk. Please try not to do that. 

Milestone releases

Arjan and I will perform milestone releases of the EE 11 platform after each of those above dates. The component specs included in each such milestone release will be in two buckets:

• Release Reviewed: All release reviewed specs at that time.
• Remainder: All of the other specs not in the Release Reviewed bucket. For each spec, include the latest available milestone release, creating a new -M{2,3,4} version as necessary. 

Arjan and I request that each component spec perform milestone releases for specs in the Remainder bucket at the appropriate time. If the component spec needs help doing this, Ed and Arjan can help by just releasing what is available and calling it -M{2,3,4} as appropriate.

• M2 will follow the release review of Wave 1, 2, 3, 4 specs.
• M3 will follow the release review of Wave 5 specs.
• M4 will follow the release review of Wave 6 and 7 specs. 

Details

On 2023-12-04 Ed Burns wrote:

Thanks to Nathan Rauh for reminding us to remind you. There has been no change in plans, so please do have your specs ready to enter release review as described above.

 

The question arises, "but what about M2?" The answer is: I want to keep these spec milestones decoupled from the software delivery process for milestone releases. I have been tacking toward completing M1 as a way to see how long we need to do M2.  As you can see, we are still working on M1. Let's get M1 out the door planning M2. It is likely that we can look at M2 as a "release candidate" version.

I have a refinement of this plan to share. At the Tuesday 2023-12-12 platform project meeting, we decided to amend the plan to achieve the following objectives:

• Address the "what about the milestones?" question.
• Address the "not enough time between M1 and "ready for release review" issue.
• Apply the commonsense engineering work already encoded in the "Wave list" to the release review and milestone creation process.

The updated plan is summarized above. I have updated the release plan at https://jakartaee.github.io/platform/jakartaee11/JakartaEE11ReleasePlan .

 

Thanks for your continued dedication to making EE 11 our best release yet.

 

Ed

 

 

 

 

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