| [jakarta.ee-community] Help ship Jakarta EE 8: Getting Jakarta Specification PRs across the finish line |
Getting Jakarta EE 8 out the door in time for JakartaOne Live and CodeOne means we need each of these PRs to be perfect in the next 2 weeks. - https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/pulls They are not. We need everyone's help. We need your help. HOW YOU CAN SAVE THE DAY We need more eyes sweeping all 34+ specification project PRs looking for inconsistency and calling it out. Even better, fixing it. What I see is some PRs are great, some are ok, some are behind. But I don't see anyone who has filed a PR reviewing anyone else's PR and helping them out. Is that us? No, we help each other out, always. So come help out. You don't need to be a special someone, just a willing someone. You've got two weeks to join everyone else in NOT understanding the requirements and to work along side us all to UNDERSTAND the requirements ... and help get that reflected in all the PRs. Sometimes there is no clear requirement, but it becomes clear one is needed and that is another area you can help. WHY THESE PRS ARE IMPORTANT? These will trigger the voting process (7 days minimum) and finalize each spec. See these details: - https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakartaee-spec-project-leads/msg00039.html WHAT ARE THE KEY DATES? We need 80% of these PRs to be perfect by August 13th and voting to immediately start on them. We need the rest of these PRs to be perfect by August 20th and voting to immediately start. Voting takes 7 days. If we slip by a week we can possibly survive it. If we slip a week after that, no Jakarta EE 8 for JakartaOne Life and CodeOne. That would be truly embarrassing. We can do this and prove open source and strong community saves the day. WHAT SHOULD I LOOK FOR AND HOW TO JUMP IN? See this email for some of the latest notes on where we need more consistency. Many things to look for are listed. - https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakartaee-spec-project-leads/msg00146.html Also, join this list: - https://accounts.eclipse.org/mailing-list/jakartaee-spec-project-leads I like to call this the "getting s**t done" list. If you want to get stuff done, join and speak up. You don't need to be lead. Rather, that's how you become one. Let's all be leaders. -- David Blevins http://twitter.com/dblevins http://www.tomitribe.com |