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FAQ: Spec Lead Questions
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Spec Lead JSR Questions
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Spec Lead JSR Questions
Q: How long does it take to move through the JSR process?A:  There is also the JCP Gantt chart, which applies to JSRs under JCP version 2.8 and newer. Q: I share the Spec Lead role with X other people. How can I change the order of the Spec Lead names listed on the JSR XXX detail page? A: Multiple Spec Leads are listed alphabetically by last name/surname. This order is built into the site and cannot be changed. Q: The Member I represent as Spec Lead is considering canceling its Full Membership. How will that affect my JSR? A: When a Full Member cancels its Membership, all of its active representatives are removed from all JSRs and their accounts are deactivated. This means that you will no longer be the Spec Lead of any JSRs you currently lead. It also means that you will be removed from any Expert Groups on which your organization is represented. JSRs must find new Spec Leads or be withdrawn, though JSRs that have gone final already will maintain a record that your organization had Contributed or was on the Expert Group. Q: For whatever reason, I can no longer act as Spec Lead. How do I end my JSR(s)? A: Your JSRs do not end when you leave the Spec Lead role. If the Full Member you represent will still be a Member after you leave, it is responsible to appoint a new person to act as its representative Spec Lead. Please make sure to communicate the identity of your replacement to the PMO at admin If, however, the Full Member you represent is also leaving the Spec Lead role, you need to attempt to find a new Full Member to assume the Spec Leadership. Let the PMO know via admin Q: I'm ready to submit a draft for a posting. How do I do this? A: The Spec Lead Guide provides detailed instructions for submitting each milestone for a JSR. Q: I want to let the community know what's happening with my JSR. How can I do this? A: You may do this in a number of ways, such as posting to a web journal, blog, web site, collaborative project page, et cetera. However, you should always make sure that you provide links to those sites on the JSR's pages on jcp.org, as that is the place most people will look for information first. jcp.org also provides a number of ways to communicate with the community. As a Spec Lead, you can:
Q: I've updated my Community tab, but I want to make changes to the old, out-of-date information on my JSR detail page. How do I do this? A: You may send edits to the JSR detail page to admin
Note that edits cannot be made to a JSR detail page during any of the JSR ballots. Also realize that every section of the JSR detail page and all changes to those sections will remain for historic record; they will not be deleted. In this way, the community can track the progress of the JSR over its lifetime: how the schedule changed, how the initial ideas may or may not have changed leading up to the
Final Release, et cetera.
For ballots that take place at the end of a review period, the duration of the review period, taken with the fact that all ballots start on Tuesdays, can affect when the ballot begins. Review periods never are shorter than the minimum length (14 or 30 days, depending on the review), and so a ballot may start as much as 6 days after the review closes. For instance, a Community Review that started on a Wednesday for a thirty-day review would end on a Friday, 4 days before the Community Draft Approval Ballot would begin on the following Tuesday. Two other factors can affect the beginning and end dates of a ballot: PMO holidays and the EC changeover following an EC Election. Both should be listed on the JCP calendar. When the PMO is closed for a holiday, EC Ballots may be affected. If a ballot would close on a Monday that the PMO is closed for a single-day holiday, the ballot is instead extended to the day after (Tuesday). Ballots will not span a multi-day holiday, however: instead they are postponed until after the holiday period. For example, a ballot will not begin on the Tuesday before Christmas, but would instead start on the first Tuesday of the New Year. Each year the Executive Committee Elections are held in the Fall, and there is a period when the old EC has left and the new EC has yet to begin. Ballots that would begin or end in this period are instead postponed until the new EC begins its term. This means that a 1-week ballot may not begin from the time the old EC ends its term until the new EC begins its term, and it means that a 2-week ballot may not begin the last week of the old EC's term but will be postponed until the new EC begins its term.
Q: My JSR is in a ballot being voted on by the Executive Committee. How can I tell what the status of the ballot is?
Q: I've just submitted my Proposed Final Draft. When will the Final Approval Ballot begin/end?
Q: I have more questions that aren't answered here. Are there any more resources for Specification Leads? Spec Lead Contributor and Expert Group Questions
Q: I have someone in mind to become a Contributor or Expert Group member. How can I make this happen?
As a Spec Lead, I'm required to publish information about the JSR nominations. What do I need to post, and how? A: Spec Leads of JSRs operating under JCP 2.8 and later have a requirement to publish JSR nomination information publicly, both for Contributors and Expert Group members. This includes the name of the JCP Member, the name of the nominee, the status of the nomination (considering, approved, rejected), and any deliberations you had in coming to your decision. JCP 2.8 and newer JSRs have all provided information about their public communication channels in section 2.19 of their JSR proposals: you should be posting all this information for each nomination you receive there, in that public communication channel. Q: I've voted to approve a nomination, but the person isn't on my JSR page yet. What's the delay? A: The PMO has not approved the nomination, for one of several reasons. The reasons are described below, with the corresponding vote you will see on the EG nomination page in parentheses:
Note that this information is also provided in the vote legend on the EG nomination page. Q: Some of the experts on my Expert Group have changed their contact info. How can this be updated on jcp.org? A: The easiest way is for the expert to log in and make the changes himself. Any registered user on jcp.org can maintain his own contact information by clicking "My Profile" and then "Edit Profile" if changes are needed. Changes to e-mail addresses may take up to 24 hours to refresh to all servers, so don't be alarmed if the updates don't instantly take effect. NOTE that this cannot be used to change which company/organization an expert represents (see next question). Q: Some of the Contributors and/or Expert Group members on my group have moved from one JCP Member company to another. Can I make those edits on the Expert Group private page? A: No. Each person's account is tied to a specific JCP Membership, so editing the e-mail address will not change which Members are listed on the JSR page as Contributors or Expert Group members. To make the change, notify the PMO of which people are moving from Member X to Member Y, and that you approve their continued participation as representatives of Member Y. In parallel, have the people submit new nominations for your JSR as representatives of Member Y. The PMO will remove the people and, once they have submitted new nominations, will approve their addition. Then all that remains is for you to approve the nominations and the people will be back on the JSR page with the correct Member affiliation. Q: My Expert Group is complete and I want to close the EG from receiving further nominations. How do I do that? A: First, notify the PMO (pmo Note that this will also remove the link for Contributors, but you can always direct people whom you would like to add as either Contributors or Expert Groups members to go directly to the nomination form to nominate themselves. Q: I have contacted a person I'd like to add to the JSR as a Contributor or Expert Group member, but the "I would like to join this Expert Group" link is missing! What do I do? A: The "I would like to join this Expert Group" link disappears in either of two circumstances: you request to close the Expert Group, or the JSR posts its Final Release. If the JSR hasn't produced a Final Release and you want to re-open the Expert Group, just send a message to the PMO (pmo
Alternatively, the person can still nominate to a closed Expert Group. The person goes to the EG nomination form and fills it out as usual, specifying the closed JSR. But the Spec Lead must notify the PMO to accept this one nominee as an exception, because by default the PMO will reject new nominations to closed Expert Groups.
Spec Lead JCP Version Questions
Q: I've heard a lot about the changes that have come with JCP 2.7, and I wonder: how do these changes affect me?A: There are a lot of changes. They are summarized here for your reference. Q: JCP 2.8 mentions an issue tracker for my JSR, but I don't see it anywhere on the site. What do I do? A: You have to create one of your own, but we do have a guide on how to create one on java.net. Q: What has changed for Spec Leads in JCP 2.8? A: For a summary of the changes to the process, please refer to this 2.8 overview page. Q: What are the differences between JCP 2.8 and JCP 2.9? A: JCP 2.9 is exactly the same as JCP 2.8, but that it describes how the previously separate Executive Committees have merged into the single Executive Committee we have now. Q: How is JCP 2.10 different from JCP 2.9? A: JCP 2.10 makes three changes to the JCP: all JSR ballots are set to be 7 days in length, two more Member categories are introduced (Partner and Associate Members, in addition to the original Full Members), and the Executive Committee is modified to be composed of seats that correspond to the different types of JCP Members. For more detail about what's new in JCP 2.10, refer to the overview of JCP 2.10 changes page. Q: What do I need to know about what's different in JCP 2.11? A: JCP 2.11 makes significant changes to the lifecycle of a JSR, introduces the option of Iterative JSRs, and the option of Errata Maintenance Releases. For a more detailed summary of the changes to the process in JCP 2.11, please refer to the JCP 2.11 overview page. Q: My JSR is in JCP 2.8. What will happen to it now that JCP 2.9 has released? A: Your JSR will be listed as operating under JCP 2.9 as soon as you publish the next JCP milestone for your JSR. Q: With JCP 2.8/2.9, am I required to allow public users to post to my Issue Tracker? A: JCP 2.8 and above requires that you track all Issues that have been raised with a publicly readable Issue Tracker. You may choose to allow the public to submit issues directly into your Issue Tracker, or you may choose only to allow reading of the tracker...as long as you have provided explicit instructions on how the public can submit issues to be logged. Q: The schedule for my JCP 2.8/2.9 JSR is slipping, and I'm worried that I'm going to miss one of the deadlines! What do I do? A: JCP 2.8 introduced the ideas of deadlines for certain milestones in a JSR's development: 9 months to produce an Early Draft Review, 12 months after that to post a Public Review, 12 months after that for the Final Release, and the Maintenance Lead must set his/her own target for Maintenance Release when submitting changes for a Maintenance Review. The Executive Committee has the option of calling for a Renewal Ballot to decide if the JSR should be allowed to continue or be withdrawn when a deadline is missed, but these renewal ballots don't happen automatically. If the Executive Committee is made aware of your extenuating circumstances - for instance if you explain it to the committee representatives - then they may let you set a new deadline without calling for the Renewal Ballot. Q: I submitted my JCP 2.9 JSR; when will it go up for JSR Approval Ballot? A: If there is a problem with your submission, the PMO will contact you with a request for clarification or to identify the missing pieces, but the PMO will always respond to submitters via e-mail to confirm receipt of the submission. If you have not received such a confirmation, it is possible that the PMO did not receive your submission.
Note, too, that JSR Review and the JSR Approval Ballot are separate in JCP 2.8/2.9 and above. Part of your JCP 2.9 proposal indicated the length of time you wanted for the JSR Review, a review period that takes place before the JSR Approval Ballot which was introduced in JCP 2.8. So, once the JSR is posted, the review should be two weeks or four weeks before the ballot begins, according to whether you selected a 2 week or 4 week JSR Review. All ballots begin on Tuesdays, however, so your JSR Review will be extended to the Monday before the next ballot if 2 weeks or 4 weeks does not already fall on a Monday.
For ballots that take place at the end of a review period, the duration of the review period, taken with the fact that all ballots start on Tuesdays, can affect when the ballot begins. Review periods never are shorter than the minimum length (30 days), but may be extended to allow for the ballot length. For instance, a Community Review that started on a Wednesday for a thirty-day review would end on a Monday, 4 days after the Thursday that would be the actual 30 days after it began. In this example, the ballot would start on the last Tuesday of the review, which is actually the 28th day of the review. It should be noted that, for ballots that take place after a review period, the reviews that they follow may be extended to the Monday before the ballot begins. For example, a 30-day JCP 2.9 Public Review starting on a Tuesday would end on a Monday, extended from the previous Wednesday (the actual 30th day), making the review period actually 35 days in length. Then the Public Draft Specification Approval Ballot would begin on the following Tuesday and run for one week as specified. Two other factors can affect the beginning and end dates of a ballot: PMO holidays and the EC changeover following an EC Election. Both should be listed on the JCP calendar. When the PMO is closed for a holiday, EC Ballots may be affected. If a ballot would close on a Monday that the PMO is closed for a single-day holiday, the ballot is instead extended to the day after (Tuesday). Ballots will not span a multi-day holiday, however: instead they are postponed until after the holiday period. For example, a ballot will not begin on the Tuesday before Christmas, but would instead start on the first Tuesday of the New Year. Each year the Executive Committee Elections are held in the Fall, and there is a period when the old EC has left and the new EC has yet to begin. Ballots that would begin or end in this period are instead postponed until the new EC begins its term. This means that a 1-week ballot may not begin from the time the old EC ends its term until the new EC begins its term, and it means that a 2-week ballot may not begin the last week of the old EC's term but will be postponed until the new EC begins its term.
Q: I'm a JCP 2.8/2.9 Maintenance Lead. If there are no changes to the list of implementations, do I still need to provide the quarterly update?
Q: I'm a Specification Lead and I wish to move my JSR to JCP 2.10. How do I do this?
Which JSR do you want to move to 2.10? The PMO will confirm receipt and follow-up with you on any answers that aren't clear. Once the answers are clear and the Expert Group agrees to make the change, the PMO will update your JSR listing to show that your JSR is now operating under JCP 2.10.
Q: I'm the Spec Lead of a JCP 2.8/2.9/2.10 JSR. How do I consult with the Expert Group on new EG nominations? |
