Documentation office hours - August 5, 2022

2022-08-12T02:00:00Z

Attendees

  • Mark Waite
  • Meg McRoberts
  • Kristin Whetstone

Agenda:

  • Action items
    • Mark - Archive docs mailing list, switch to community.jenkins.io for Docs SIG
    • Upcoming blog posts that Mark owes to the organization
      • Award winners from cdCon
        • Darin Pope named CDF Continuous Enthusiast of 2022
        • Basil Crow named Jenkins Top Contributor
        • Wadeck Follonier Security MVP (Most Valuable Player)
        • Oleg Nenashev named CDF Top Documentor
      • Jenkins Contributor Summit summary
      • She Code Africa Contributhon results
  • News
    • LTS 2.361 is the likely next baseline (discussion in Developer list)
  • Look and feel page improvements pull request is merged to jenkins.io
    • Suggestion from Daniel Beck to revert the changes
    • Fixes from original submitter in new pull request
    • Shall we rollback and try again or push forward and adapt to issues?
    • General sense to proceed, but worth a conversation with Daniel to resolve concerns
  • Jenkins 2.346.3 changelog and upgrade guide
    • LTS Checklist is open for 2.346.3
    • PR for 2.346.3 upgrade guide and changelog
      • Includes backports that were approved and merged as of this week/last week
  • Google Summer of Code update - Kristin Whetstone
  • Long-standing pull requests
    • Modernizing a plugin
      • Original document
        • Kevin Martens will be evaluating it and following the steps
      • Prototype tutorial pages
      • Need to be ready for DevOps World
    • 90 minute session at DevOps World on Adopting a plugin
      • Mark, Jean-Marc, Bruno Verachten
        • Adopt ~30 plugins, modernize them, hide the modernization
        • Students in a workshop modernize them, look in the “back of the book” for answers when they hit a problem
        • Merge the students work
        • Goal: each student merge at least one pull in the two hours of workshop
        • Use Gitpod to create and delete development environment
          • Automatic creation of good development environments
          • (Correct Java, Maven, etc.)
          • Let’s them run Jenkins without ever putting it on their computer
        • On location workshop in Orlando, FL
        • Use the tutorial pages, must be published and usable by then
    • Meg’s security docs rework
      • Merged master branch, resolved conflicts, ready for review
  • Review Jenkins pull requests