Re: [servlet-dev] Jakarta Servlet EE9 status

[Mark Thomas <markt@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Paul,

Yes, the goal posts are being moved. Unsurprisingly, I disagree with the
view expressed in that thread.

Enabling downstreams to make progress is what matters and the M1 release
provides that.

Until the spec text arrives (it is on the way) the next thing on my TODO
list for Servlet is to look at updating the TCK. I think we caught all
the name changes but if we missed any subtle ones hopefully running the
TCK will uncover them.

I don't have a sense of how complex updating the TCK is going to be so I
plan to start with the simplest - EL - and use the experience gained
there to (hopefully) ease the Servlet TCK update.

I haven't done a careful check of the M1 release to see if everything
else (license, copyright, etc) is OK. Given we have since fixed various
copyright dates I suspect there are others things that need fixing too.
Informally reviewing the M1 release for possible issues is something
that could be usefully done now.

Mark




On 23/01/2020 00:43, Paul Nicolucci wrote:
> Hey Mark,
> 
> Kevin Sutter sent some information clarifying this and giving some
> information behind the decision to the platform-dev mailing list earlier
> this morning:
> https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakartaee-platform-dev/msg01414.html
> 
> Given the clarification in the above thread I think the correct thing to
> do is to remove that check mark and have the community work towards an
> RC. We can then add a link to our RC here to notify others:
> https://github.com/orgs/eclipse-ee4j/projects/17#column-7346435
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Paul Nicolucci
> 
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 4:40 AM Mark Thomas <markt@xxxxxxxxxx
> <mailto:markt@xxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On 22/01/2020 01:22, Paul Nicolucci wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > We have the following issue opened to track the Jakarta Servlet EE9
>     > progress:
>     >
>     > https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/servlet-api/issues/286
>     >
>     > I noticed that the following was checked off: *Release Candidate
>     (RC) of
>     > Jakarta API in Maven Central*
>     >
>     > However I don't see an RC out on maven central. All I could find
>     was an
>     > M1 release:
>     >
>     https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/jakarta/servlet/jakarta.servlet-api/5.0.0-M1/
>     >
>     > I'll remove the completion check mark for this action until we have an
>     > RC to avoid confusion on status. If I missed the RC just let me know.
> 
>     Please don't.
> 
>     That checkbox is to indicate that an API JAR is available in Maven
>     Central that is in a suitable state for dependent projects to use for
>     their own javax -> jakarta transition. The M1 JAR meets that
>     requirement. JSP has already made use of it.
> 
>     The reason it is M1 rather than RC1 is that none of the detail (copy
>     right dates, license headers, versions, OSGI manifest details) was
>     checked to produce the M1. There was no confidence that M1 would be a
>     suitable release candidate so it didn't get the RC qualifier.
> 
> 
>     > I'll also complete the following: *Create Eclipse Release Record
>     > <https://www.eclipse.org/projects/handbook/#pmi-commands-release> in
>     > your respective Jakarta Specification Project.*
>     >  
>     > I just wanted to ensure that given previous communication here that
>     > Servlet 5.0.0 will just be the javax->jakarta rename and we won't be
>     > including any other content?
> 
>     That is still under discussion. There may be a small API addition.
> 
>     Mark
> 
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