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Executive Committee Meeting Minutes
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Tuesday April 7 |
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PMO |
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ME EC |
SE/EE EC |
Total attendance: 12 |
Total attendance: 11 |
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Since 75% of the ME EC was present, there was a quorum for
the ME EC at this meeting. |
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Patrick welcomed John Rizzi, representing Aplix, who was recently elected to Intel's vacated seat on the ME EC. John introduced himself, explaining that he is VP of Technology Strategycat Aplix, and has been working with Java for many years.
Members reviewed and approved the minutes of the February meeting. (Comments from Wayne Carr and Geir Magnusson had previously been incorporated.)
Following the February 2009 EC meeting, the following motion for electronic (email) voting was proposed by Apache Software Foundation and seconded by Intel Corp.
“TCK licenses must not be used to discriminate against or restrict compatible implementations of Java specifications by including field of use restrictions on the tested implementations or otherwise. Licenses containing such limitations do not meet the requirements of the JSPA, the agreement under which the JCP operates, and violate the expectations of the Java community that JCP specs can be openly implemented.”
Results of the vote were as follows:
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The ECs went into private session for a discussion with Jeet Kaul (Vice President of the Client Software Group at Sun) on the negotiations between Apache and Sun.
EC members discussed the proposed changes to the Process Document. Some members expressed concerns that proposed changes were too radical for inclusion in a Maintenance Release. It was agreed in each case to seek a compromise by "softening" the language, rather than to abandon the change. Wayne Carr agreed to circulate a revised version of the document after the meeting. Members would be given a final chance to raise concerns by email, and then a vote would be held to proceed with the Maintenance Review.
NOTE: after the meeting members voted to proceed with the Review. The final draft of the Process Document, indicating all proposed changes, is available from jcp.org. See http://jcp.org/aboutJava/communityprocess/maintenance/jsr215/215ChangeLog.html.
Patrick briefly presented the usual EC statistics, pointing out that Eclipse and Nortel did not vote in a recent SE/EE JSR ballot, while Motorola, Qisda, Samsung, Time Warner failed to vote on two Java ME JSR ballots. Patrick reminded EC members of their obligation to vote on JSRs. It was suggested that perhaps penalties should be applied to those who fail to vote (and to those who fail to attend meetings). Patrick agreed to put this matter on the list of possible reforms for the next version of the Process Document.
Patrick reported several changes (see the PMO Topics presentation).
Patrick announced that In the interests of promoting transparency, the PMO proposed to open up the nomination process to the membership, who would be encouraged to make nominations through the JCP Wiki site. The PMO, in consultation with the ECs, would make the final choice of nominees, and the ECs would - as usual - vote on the nominations.
Sean Sheedy briefly discussed the activities of the Java ME working group. He reported that the group held a preliminary meeting three weeks ago, and that there seemed to be enough interest to continue meeting regularly. Sean promised to publish minutes. Patrick agreed to chair future meetings, in order to emphasize that these are official EC meetings.
