Documentation Office Hours - Aug 4, 2023

2023-08-04T03:00:00Z

2023-08-04 (Asia)

Attendees

  • Mark Waite
  • Kris Stern
  • Meg McRoberts

Agenda

  • Google Summer of Code
    • Versioned documentation for jenkins.io - Vandit Singh
      • Vandit will demo the status at UX SIG Aug 16, 2023
        • Still some broken links
        • Some actions that
      • Which versions should be in the list of versions?
        • Mark thinks LTS baseline (2.401.1, 2.414.1, …)
        • Weekly seems too frequent and would not many changes between branches
        • Meg agrees that LTS baseline is enough (4 times per year)
        • Is there a way that we can cap the number of releases displayed
          • Mark assumed keep all the versions available, but only show a subset in menu
            • Allow “… more”
          • What does Antora do with many versions?
      • Meg asked if there is a way to indicate that a page changed compared to the previous release
    • Docker compose for tutorials - Ashutosh Saxena
      • Demo last week with Ashutosh for 45 minutes
      • Demo today from Bruno Verachten
      • Bruno will do a detailed demo in Office Hours (EU) next week
        • 30+ commands
      • More to be done, but looking very good
    • GitLab plugin modernization - Harsh Pratap Singh
      • Mark has many things to test, meet in about 12 hours with Harsh
    • Plugin health score - Jagruti Tiwari
      • Moving forward
    • Upcoming dates
      • Midterm evaluations complete and all 4 passed
      • Final evaluation open Aug 28, closes Sep 4
      • Final presentations in mid September
  • Open pull requests of interest
    • Using updatecli for jenkins.io from Bruno Verachten
      • Submits pull request to update tool versions in the documentation
      • Merged and results are now appearing
      • PR-6583 - NodeJS version update from LTS to most recent release (discussion ongoing)
    • Administering Jenkins on Kubernetes from Tanuj Sharma
      • PR-6474 proposes an outline, needs review from those who know Kubernetes
  • Java 11, Java 17, and Java 21 discussion (see Google Doc from Mark Waite)
    • Discussion, next steps, etc.
  • DevOps World Tour web site
    • Sep 13-14 - New York - Mark is speaking
    • Sep 27 - Chicago - Mark is speaking
    • Oct 18-19 - Santa Clara - Mark is speaking
    • Oct 26 - Singapore
    • Nov 29 - London
  • Mark Waite out of office Aug 14, 2023 and Aug 18, 2023
    • Meetings removed from the Jenkins calendar
    • Cancel meeting Aug 18, 2023?