Jakarta EE Platform Call

Date: 2021-10-19

Present:

• Ivar Grimstad (Eclipse Foundation)
• Kevin Sutter (IBM)
• BJ Hargrave (IBM)
• John Clingan (Red Hat)
• Emily Jiang (IBM)
• Scott Stark (Red Hat)
• Scott Marlow (Red Hat)
• Thomas Watson (IBM)
• Jesse McConnell (Webtide)
• Tomas Langer (Oracle)
• Lukas Jungmann (Oracle)
• Dmitry Kornilov (Oracle)
• Jean-Louis Monteiro (Tomitribe)
• Scott Kurz (IBM)
• Roberto Cortez (Red Hat)
• Cesar Hernandez (Tomitribe)

Agenda and Minutes

Jakarta EE 10 Status (standing agenda item)

• 14 specs have responded the status request form
• What does this mean for the remaining?
  • Action - Ivar: Reach out to project leads and remind to submit the form or initiate release reviews
• Start tracking tighter, push for release reviews and ratification
• Monthly TCK calls

Discuss module-info testing requirements

• What if any requirements are needed for non-project implementations?
  • none
• Are there any TCK/signature test requirements and who is signing up to do them?
  • none
• Spec committee needs to define any ratification requirements.
  • Spec committee will define this
    • Does it exist?
    • Is it readable?
• Discussion:
  • No requirement for vendors to include a module-info in their product
  • Up to each project to determine what they want to test
    • Packages exist, typos etc.
  • Scott will respond on the mailing list and update the wiki

Need common annotations release plan or argue for service release

• https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/jakartaee-platform/issues/423
• https://github.com/eclipse-ee4j/common-annotations-api/issues/92
• The project currently lacks project lead
• Dmitry will help:
  • Create release plan for 2.1 (PR)
  • Create the release 2.1

Issues created for service releases needed for adding module-info to specs not doing a release for EE10.

• Encourage these projects to do a SR ASAP