Jakarta EE Monthly Platform Architecture Call

Date: 2023-05-02

Present:

• Jared Anderson (IBM)
• Emily Jiang (IBM)
• Jim Krueger (IBM)
• Nathan Rauh (IBM)
• Tom Watson (IBM)
• Ivar Grimstad (Eclipse Foundation)
• Jean-Louis Monteiro (Tomitribe)
• Cesar Hernandez (Tomitribe)
• Ed Burns (MSFT)
• Lukas Jungmann (Oracle)
• Tanja Obradovic (Eclipse Foundation)
• Jan Westerkamp (iJUG, 10 min late)
• Petr Aubrecht (Payara)
• Scott Stark (Red Hat)
• Ed Bratt (Oracle)

Agenda and Minutes

Ivar stated the intent of the “platform architecture” call as opposed to the “platform call”.

• Intended for component spec stakeholders.
• Do not need to have context from “platform call” to participate in this call.

Jakarta EE 11 Release Planning

• Component Spec Plan Reviews
  • Due date to be ready for plan review (Pull Request created): **May 30 **
  • New features, enhancements or additions
  • Removals, deprecations of backwards incompatible changes
  • Minimum Java SE Version
• => Action for Ed Burns: Communicate the date to the spec projects. Email to jakartaee-spec-project-leads mailing list.
  • Introduce Ed and Arjan
  • Be clear about the requirements for 2023-05-30:
    • PR is created by COB 2023-05-30
    • Helpful notes from Ed Bratt
      • Plan review Mentor checklist: https://github.com/jakartaee/specification-committee/blob/master/plan_review_checklist.md
      • Spec teams should create PRs using the Plan Review PR template. All items on that template should be checked or declared n/a. The Mentor checklist is the verification that the Spec committee uses prior to initiating the Plan ballot.
      • PR template: https://github.com/jakartaee/specifications/blob/master/.github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE/plan_review_pr_template.md
    • Issues · jakartaee/jakartaee-platform (github.com)
    • Jakarta EE 11 Discussion - Google Docs
  • wrangle participation from component leads for this meeting specifically.

TCK discussions

• Call tomorrow at 11:00 am ET
• https://eclipse.zoom.us/j/96059419718&sa=D&source=calendar&ust=1683071492534289&usg=AOvVaw0Hw-fAzUv8sXtwcfxBZmG4
• https://docs.google.com/document/d/1V1dDLJkd14EDRMPeuI0VzPtU4Lbli8FFBd1pLDLlOrY/edit
• Encourage more people to join the call and the ongoing discussion on the mailing list

Project management

• Issue tracking software choice
  • Plan of record
    • Categorize current jobs to be done to get to EE 11 in terms of work streams: a cohesive set of tasks that build toward one or more goals over time. Need to be shaped into milestones that indicate progress toward the goal.
    • Use several GitHub Project Tables to capture all the work streams.
    • Use the GitHub Project Tables as the source of truth for current and future work.
      • Including as a guide for running the meetings.

[Emily] Jakarta Security and MP JWT interlock call

• Call scheduled for every other Thursdays (11th May) on MP calendar

jQAssistant - new release

• Jan will check out if changes is needed to generate the report