Hello David, I am in favor of releasing the vote, here's my +1
Em sex., 30 de abr. de 2021 às 22:32, David Blevins <david.blev...@gmail.com> escreveu: > Heads up that we are narrowing in in the last few TCK issues and there is > still some chance we can be Jakarta EE 9.1 Web Profile certified in time > for the Jakarta EE 9.1 release vote Monday. > > It would be super super and I mean *super* tight.... > > However, if we can get it done we'll need to do a release vote by no later > than Sunday afternoon and file our certification request. We don't need to > have concluded our vote to make the Jakarta EE 9.1 release ballot, we just > need final binaries of our own to be at least in staging and in the process > of our own vote. > > We do need that vote pass, however, so that would require some pragmatism > on all our parts. > > For that reason I recommend we do not try to push out a 9.0.0 final, but > go ahead with 9.0.0-M7. If there are some issues with the binaries we put > up for vote, unless they are legal issues, we can still release them and > immediately fix the issues next week in a subsequent 8.0.8 and 9.0.0-M8. > There's no reason to "wait", we can simply release twice. Version numbers > are free. > > The Jakarta EE 9.1 release vote lasts for two weeks and an announcement > would happen some days after that. Ff we did want to push out a 9.0.0 for > the announcement, we'd have at least till May 17th to do that, perhaps even > the 20th. > > The reason we want to get certified in time for the ballot is recently > there was a change that implementations listed on the ballot get a special > place at the top of the specification page. Any implementations that come > even one day later cannot be included and will not be accepted or given > special designation. This lasts forever and is a permanent advantage to > those in the list. It's also a permanent *disadvantage* to those not on > the list. It's eat or be eaten. > > So that's what we're going for: A staged binary up for a vote here, > passing the TCK, in time to be listed on the Jakarta EE 9.1 release ballot > Monday. > > > -David > >
