[jakarta.ee-spec] Jakarta EE Spec Committee Approved Meeting Minutes - N

[Paul Buck <paul.buck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Jakarta EE Spec Committee - November 2nd, 2022

Attendees (present in bold):

Kenji Kazumura - Fujitsu

Tom Watson - IBM - Emily Jiang

Ed Bratt - Oracle - Dmitry Kornilov

Andrew Pielage - Payara - Petr Aubrecht

David Blevins - Tomitribe - Jean-Louis Monteiro, Cesar Hernandez

Ivar Grimstad - PMC Representative

Marcelo Ancelmo - Participant Member - Martijn Verburg

Werner Keil - Committer Member

Scott Stark - Red Hat - Scott Marlow  Enterprise Member

Zhai Luchao -  Shandong Cvicse Middleware Co. - Enterprise Member

 

Eclipse Foundation: Tanja Obradovic, Paul Buck (chair)

Past business / action items:

• Approval is requested for the meeting minutes from the October 19th, 2022 meeting as drafted - Approved.

Agenda:

• Ongoing tracking spreadsheet of individual specs progressing through the JESP

JESP PR w/ approved changes to be merged by Ivar and JESP webpage to be updated, Paul send an email to the Spec Discussions mailing list to inform projects of the change

• Work on and resolve Specification Committee’s process enhancements items including those identified in the Jakarta EE 10 retrospective:

• Issues with the “enhancement” tag https://github.com/jakartaee/specification-committee/issues

• Enhancment issues in a project board https://github.com/orgs/jakartaee/projects/1/views/1

• Work underway on issue #63 on updating a TCK in a service release

• See minutes on this topic from the October 19th meeting

Call for a vote on accepting the merged TCK process update PR:

• https://github.com/jakartaee/jakarta.ee/pull/1517/files

• There were no objections to proceeding to vote on approving PR #1517 today, in a subsequent meeting the additional inputs from Emily (changes permitted before a final EE release) and Ed (alternative tests) to be considered for an additional revision.

• No objections were raised by the committee with regards to merging PR 1517 as written

• Candidate item for our enhancement backlog “Process for releasing platform spec errata”?

• See issue #567 and PR #568 to update certain version information to the Platform specification document

Proposed in the call: 

• 1. Update the change log including date, tag the spec document as 10.0.1 ie. a service release of the spec

2. Then create an issue against the JESP for how to handle erratas. Scott Stark to create the issue.