# Documentation office hours - August 2, 2024

**URL:** https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-august-2-2024/17906
**Category:** Community
**Tags:** meeting, sig-docs
**Created:** [August 5, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-august-2-2024/17906 "2024-08-05T23:55:05Z")
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### Author: ![MarkEWaite](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/markewaite/32/20_2.png) [@MarkEWaite](https://community.jenkins.io/u/MarkEWaite)
#### Post date: [August 5, 2024, 11:55pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-august-2-2024/17906/1 "2024-08-05T23:55:05Z")

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2024-08-02T02:30:00Z

[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/2X/f/fcc056943d8312f35298294905008fd131403685.jpeg "2024 08 02 Docs Office Hours") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TO8jnjROz1w)

## 2024-08-02 (Asia)

Attendees:

- Mark Waite
- Meg McRoberts

Agenda

- Google Summer of Code projects - 26 Aug 2024
  - [improve infra stats site](https://www.jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/2024/project-ideas/implementing-ui-for-jenkins-infra-statistics/)
    - [Infrastructure stats site](https://stats.jenkins.io/) project is currently in the [infra-statistics repository](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/infra-statistics/)

- Contributor spotlight: [Darin Pope](https://contributors.jenkins.io/pages/contributors/darin-pope/) ((July 30, 2024)
  - Published on time
  - Created by [Alyssa Tong](mailto:atong@cloudbees.com)
  - Looking for volunteers that can write the next several spotlights

- Jenkins 2.462.1 [LTS changelog and upgrade guide](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/7406) are ready for review
  - Release candidate 24 July 2024, release 7 Aug 2024
  - Mark Waite is release lead
  - Jeremie Playout will be shadowing Mark as the 2.426.1 release lead
    - Add him as a release lead in the future

  - Are there screenshots that need to be updated based on 2.462.1 or previous

- Simplifying plugin maintenance - a case study
  - Review current state of an [example plugin](https://plugins.jenkins.io/electricflow/)
    - Outdated minimum Jenkins version (based on [plugin installation data](https://stats.jenkins.io/pluginversions/electricflow.html))
      - 90% of installs of the most recent release are on Jenkins 2.426.3 or newer
      - Upgrade minimum Jenkins version to 2.426.3 (no more Java 8)
      - Use Jenkinsfile from the Jenkins archetype (test Java 21, stop testing Java 11)

    - Non-standard source code formatting automation
      - Enable spotless.check.skip true in pom.xml file, remove Intellij format settings
      - Format with mvn spotless:apply match with other plugins

    - Outdated wiremock test library
      - Replaced with most recent wiremock library release

    - Dependabot updates daily are too frequent
      - Process them weekly and keep current enough

    - No automated release when relevant changes arrive
      - [Setting up automated releases](https://www.jenkins.io/doc/developer/publishing/releasing-cd/) describes the process

    - Move changelog to GitHub releases
      - Enable release drafter (part of automated releases)
      - Move outdated changelog from documentation to point to an already tagged release

    - Remove branches that are already part of a newer branch
      - Cluttered [ci.jenkins.io](https://ci.jenkins.io/job/Plugins/job/electricflow-plugin/) hinders maintainers

    - Enable GitHub automerge
      - Refer to the [workshop document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1PKYIpPlRVGsBqrz0Ob1Cv3cefOZ5j2xtGZdWs27kLuw/edit#heading=h.veb37w5068w8)

    - Add scripted Pipeline tests?
      - Already some indications in [PR-19](https://github.com/jenkinsci/electricflow-plugin/pull/19)

    - Add declarative Pipeline tests?