Jakarta EE Platform Call

Date: 2021-02-09

Present:

Agenda and Minutes

Completes tomorrow (Plan)
Glassfish and TCK would need to be complete by first week of March to allow for sufficient voting period before end of March.
Target is to start vote for release by March 31

Communicate a deadline for individual Component release plans – April 15
- Consider the use of the jakarta.ee News website for communication.
Communicate a need for a new Release Lead – looking for a volunteer
New minimum Java SE 11 version for the next release? Could have a ripple effect across many APIs.
Possible platform level concerns
- Embrace CDI in component APIs (where not done fully yet)
- Refactor TCK (extract spec level TCKs)
  - Structure how the spec tcks are pulled into the platform tck (maven?)
  - Concern that refactoring will prevent a release, need to make sure that doesn’t happen / can refactor over multiple releases
Poll the vendors for input to how the platform should evolve?
- Kubernetes ?
- Cloud native technologies? MicroProfile?
- Messaging platforms?
- Dmitry mentioned a doc that the Platform or PMC put together a year or two ago about future directions… https://www.eclipse.org/ee4j/direction.php
The contents of the release plan should be possible to implement and deliver within 6 months. If features require longer implementation period, the release plan should be phased so it can be released in 6 months cycles
Target Release date of the next Jakarta EE release will be in October 2021

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