2024-04-11 (EU/US)
Attendees
- Mark Waite
- Kevin Martens
- Bruno Verachten
Agenda
- LTS 2.440.3 to be released on Apr 17, 2024
- Pull request for changelog & upgrade guide
- Update to correct author & pr title for Spring entry (merged, thanks Kris & Mark)
- Release candidate build available for testing
- Announcement had some surprises, tag is placed correctly but the linked build is incorrect
- Will update with a most recent link in the GitHub release note when available
- Pull request for changelog & upgrade guide
- Weekly 2.453 built and delivered successfully
- 2.452 proposed as the next LTS baseline
- Current front runner for next LTS baseline selection
- Discussion in developer mailing list
- New blog post from Kris Stern regarding GSoC application period conclusion
- Google Summer of Code
- Review process has closed, moving into the application receipt phase
- Blog post is out for the closing of applications
- Now in the grading period, preparing our submission to Google
- ~70 submissions to grade, great to see so much activity
- Alyssa returns from time off just in time to submit to Google
- Contributor spotlight
- Hervé Le Meur spotlight published yesterday
- Mark Waite will be next after Hervé
- Versioned docs project
- Progress continues thanks to Vandit Singh and Kris Stern
- Working on the Gatsby site, waiting for news from the infra team on the final site
- Infra team is still loaded with keeping costs under control
- $60000 donation from AWS, need to change infra to use it
- Mark needs to submit the donation application for 2025 AWS donation
- Donation recipients will be decided in June 2024
- Docker compose update - tutorials and Docker install instructions
- Recent fix introduced in Docker Compose v 2.24.7 has rendered our existing docker-compose.yaml invalid. (somewhat of an edge case for us)
- Bruno has created PRs to fix the issue that have been merged.
- Instead of “docker compose up -d maven”, it will be “docker compose up -d –profile maven”
- Tested but wasn’t clear why it wasn’t working for the user who raised the issue (thanks to them for helping get this fixed!)
- According to the stats, there are plenty of folks reading the instructions and sharing their excitement.
- GSoC 2023 project that is helping Jenkins users now
- Technical review/validation for pull requests
- Reaching out to community for volunteers to assist with technical validation of pull requests
- Let’s add those people to the copy editors group so they can review and he can @mention them.
- Kris Stern, Mark Waite, Meg McRoberts, Bruno Verachten, and Kevin Martens
- Have already tried tagging asking for review, worked very well and thanks to Kris for continued review and support.
- Documenting Pipeline libraries with markdown or plain text or HTML
- Markus Winter proposed to support markdown for Pipeline library documentation (PR-117)
- Mark Waite has converted his branch of pipeline-library to use markdown, works well
- Requires markdown formatter plugin installed on the Jenkins controller
- If we update the ci.jenkins.io Pipeline library, then markdown formatter plugin needs to be installed on ci.jenkins.io
- Mark created a helpdesk ticket for this
- Need security to review and provide insight/feedback
- Additional permissions for the wiki-docs repository
- Mark Waite learned that docs team didn’t have permissions on the wiki archive repository
- Permissions also granted to copy editors
- Fixed by Tim Jacomb and infra team
- Don’t really make changes to that repo
- In this case, we had a plugin that had documentation in the wiki, but needed to mark the plugin as deprecated.
- By editing the files in the wiki archive
- Mark Waite learned that docs team didn’t have permissions on the wiki archive repository
- CDCon next week in Seattle
- CDF and Jenkins Awards to be presented and awarded