Skip my previous question. Regards. Gurkan On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 8:57 AM Gurkan Erdogdu <cgerdo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> AFAIK, (please correct me if I am wrong), ASF is not a member of the > Jakarta EE working group and is not able to get certified. How will TomEE > get certified? > Because of this, Tomcat is not able to be listed in certification pages of > Servlet specification. > > Regards. > Gurkan > > On Sat, May 1, 2021 at 4:32 AM David Blevins <david.blev...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> 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 >> >>
