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Re: [jakarta.ee-community] Help ship Jakarta EE 8: Getting Jakarta Specification PRs across the finish line

Hi Reza, All!

yes, we sure do need paperwork to be in order.

For contributors and/or  committers please refer to below.

Contributors need the following:
Eclipse Contributor Agreement

also please see  How to contribute wiki  that has quite a detailed explanation on how to get started as contributor and then points out the process for getting elected as committer.

Committers need the following:

Eclipse Foundation Membership Agreement

you can read about Committer agreements here
Member Committer and Contributor Agreement or Individual Committer Agreement

Working Group Participation Agreement

The paperwork for committers mostly depends if one is employed by a company that is the Eclipse Foundation member or Working Group member. For a specific questions, we invite people to please get in touch with us and we'll help them though the paperwork process.

HTH,

Tanja

On 2019-08-02 5:36 p.m., Reza Rahman wrote:

Finally catching up with this thread. It has been a busy couple of weeks, especially with Jakarta One Livestream (FYI the program is now out there: https://jakartaone.org/#plan-of-the-day - please help spread word).

I'll help get the word out on this ASAP (but I have a question below). I wish I could help beyond that myself but I cannot realistically at the moment (in particular there is still important work to do for Jakarta One Livestream).

Werner's email has a very legitimate point however. How much can someone really help without the proper paperwork in place? If the answer is not much, unfortunately there is not much point trying to spread word too much beyond the vendors and people already on this alias. Can someone please clarify that?

By way of expectations management though, I'll say the following. That said, we need to give this a shot and see who can reasonably help right now.

* It is not that people don't care, it is just that they are busy. Unfortunately the people that care the most are probably the busiest. Over time however, we will definitely find people now that contributing is a real possibility.

* It takes time to mobilize the community at scale, likely in the order of months not weeks. However it is time to begin that grassroots organizational work on behalf of Jakarta EE and this is a good catalyst.

* We have unfortunately lost a few people to the long dormancy. However a good place to start is by reaching out individually to all the folks that used to contribute to Java EE via the JCP. Another good set of people to start asking is JUG leaders and conference organizers. I am happy to try to do that if someone can help me with an answer to the question above.

Reza Rahman
Principal Program Manager
Java on Azure

Please note that views here are my own as an individual community member and do not represent the views of my employer.

On 7/30/2019 11:31 PM, David Blevins wrote:
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.


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