Executive Committee Meeting Minutes for December 2024

Date


December 10, 2024

Location


Teleconference

Attendance

Tuesday 10 December
PMO
  • Heather VanCura
Executive Committee
  • Amazon.com Services - Volker Simonis - present
  • Alibaba - Sanhong Li - present
  • ARM - Stuart Monteith, Shiyou Huang - present
  • Azul Systems - Simon Ritter - present
  • Bellsoft - Pasha Finkelshteyn - present
  • BNY - Rodrigo Graciano, Sirisha Pratha - present
  • Deep Netts - Zoran Sevarac - present
  • Eclipse - Tanja Obradović - present
  • Fujitsu - Kenji Kazumura - present
  • IBM - Tim Ellison, Gireesh Punathil - present
  • Intel - Derek White - present
  • Japan JUG - Shin Tanamoto - present
  • JetBrains - Mala Gupta - present
  • Microsoft - Brian Stafford - present
  • MicroDoc - Bruno Caballero - present
  • Oracle - Luke Kowalski, Georges Saab, Machiel Bolhuis - present
  • SAP - Martin Doerr - present
  • SouJava - Bruno Souza, Rafael Del Nerol - present
Total attendance: 18 of 18 voting members
Since 75% of the EC's voting members were present, the EC was quorate for this session

Minutes


The EC Standing Rules state the following penalties for non-attendance at EC meetings (note that those who participate in face-to-face meetings by phone are officially counted as absent): There are no changes in voting privileges as a result of this meeting.

Personnel changes/EC Elections


New alternate for Intel added, Derek White, as Steve Dohrmann and Shirish Aundhe are retiring; Sandhyaa Viswanathan becomes the primary representative for Intel. New alternate added for Eclipse Foundation, Tanja Obradovic.

Heather reviewed the 2024 JCP EC Elections results and explained that the EC Members would have a chance to share about themselves and their 2025 Java priorities in the public portion of the EC Meeting (see presentation for details).

EC Stats


Heather presented the usual EC stats (see the PMO presentation for details). Iris Clark will present additional Java SE JSR updates in the public portion of the EC meeting.

Java in Education


Heather reviewed the summary of discussions in the Java in Education group; we reviewed materials for JUG leaders focused on how some Java User Groups are embracing new developers and students and some updates to the presentation on modern Java features. All are published on the Java in Education wiki on GitHub.

Heather leads a monthly discussion with Java User Group (JUG) leaders to discuss the workshops they are organizing in their local communities and provide guidance and best practices; the next discussion is December 17.

Java Ecosystem Working Group


Heather reviewed the Java Ecosystem Working Group wiki page and the next meeting date, December 17 with a discussion and updates from Gradle and Jenkins. January 14, 2025 as a subsequent working group meeting is scheduled with a discussion on Maven.

Java on Arm


Sanjay Alladwar shared updates (see the presentation for details).

Other Business - Logistics and 2025 Calendar


Heather reviewed a few upcoming events and dates, such as JavaOne 2025, JVMLS & OpenJDK Committers Workshop in August, and other 2025 JCP EC Meeting dates in the calendar. The hosts for our 2025 face to face meetings are Microsoft in the Bay Area and Arm in Cambridge.

We then adjourned for the Public JCP EC Meeting.

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