As you may well know, the stewardship of Java EE was tranferred to Eclipse Foundation in the 1st half of 2018, and Java EE has become Jakarta EE.  Since the Batch Spec was included in Java EE 7 and forward, one may be wondering about its future in Jakarta EE era.  With that in mind, I started a discussion thread in Jakarta EE Community mail list.

[jakarta.ee-community] Plan for Batch Spec (JSR 352) in Jakarta EE

I would encourage JBeret community and the larger batch processing community to participate in that discussion to provide thoughts, feedback, wishful feature requests, etc.