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Jakarta EE Platform Call

Date: 2021-05-25

Present (please put your name down here to mark yourself as present…):

  • Jan Westerkamp (iJUG)
  • Amelia Eiras (Tomitribe)
  • Jean-Louis Monteiro (Tomitribe)
  • Emily Jiang (IBM)
  • Scott Marlow (Red Hat)
  • BJ Hargrave (IBM)
  • Tanja Obradovic (Eclipse Foundation)
  • Lukas Jungmann (Oracle)
  • John Clingan (Red Hat)
  • Ivar Grimstad (Eclipse Foundation)
  • Werner Keil (Individual, Ambassador)
  • Majid Mostafavi
  • Steve Millidge (Payara)
  • Brian Stansberry (Red Hat)
  • Roberto Cortez (Red Hat)
  • Thomas Watson (IBM)
  • Kenji Kazumura (Fujitsu)
  • Dmitry Kornilov (Oracle)
  • Ed Bratt (Oracle)
  • Jonathan Gallimore (Tomitribe)
  • Scott Stark (Red Hat)
  • Otávio Santana
  • Cesar Hernandez (Tomitribe)

Agenda and Minutes

Jakarta EE 9.1 Release Announcement

  • https://jakarta.ee/news/jakarta-ee-9-1-released/
  • https://twitter.com/JakartaEE/status/1397179398177148928

Q2 objectives ownership to be confirmed, seems best suited for Platform project team

  • Line 4, 6, 7, 30
  • Tanja went through the objectives for Q2

Versioning Schemes for Platform & Profile Specifications

  • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZQGEYSCN5eYtDjWOXAQqNin7iwLKHnQFEP73FDoQdbw/edit?ts=60a3efd1
  • Scott sent a msg to the platform list
    • https://www.eclipse.org/lists/jakartaee-platform-dev/msg02624.html
    • The conversations ought to continue in the thread to enable the Platform call next week to be more effective.
  • Discussion:
    • What is the correct time frame for time box focus?
    • Suggestion:
      • Full Platform time boxed to 2 year release cadence for Major releases
      • Web Profile, Core Profile, ++ release minor in between if there are enough specs ready
      • Make Milestones publicly available (as a preview of what’s coming)?
    • How to handle releases of individual specifications? Support, marketing.
    • Whatever road is chosen, how does it affect or enhance innovation through diversity to avoid Vendor lock-in patterns?
    • Goals for a given time box for major release

EE10 Direction Statement

  • Discussion around roadmap
  • Platform and Web Profile should be mentioned among the goals of the direction statement
  • How should new features/specifications be handled?

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