# Documentation office hours - August 9, 2024

**URL:** https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-august-9-2024/18252
**Category:** Community
**Tags:** meeting, sig-docs
**Created:** [August 15, 2024, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-august-9-2024/18252 "2024-08-15T18:00:49Z")
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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 15, 2024, 6:00pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-august-9-2024/18252/1 "2024-08-15T18:00:49Z")

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2024-08-09T02:30:00Z

[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/2X/6/63de0d66c44d299e2b14cafba69cd12abf3f76ec.jpeg "2024 08 09 Docs Office Hours") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIoZMl5Y6ZE)

## 2024-08-09 (Asia)

Attendees:

- Mark Waite
- Kris Stern

Agenda

- 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)
  - Found several new candidates for contributor spotlight

- Jenkins [2.452.4](https://www.jenkins.io/changelog-stable/2.452.4/), [2.462.1](https://www.jenkins.io/changelog-stable/2.462.1/), and [2.471](https://www.jenkins.io/changelog/2.471/) released with [critical security fixes](https://www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2024-08-07/)
  - Security fixes the big story
  - Several user experience improvements in addition to the security work
  - GZip improved performance
  - Startup time reduced by ~5 seconds with a JSON performance fix

- Retiring the Chinese documentation site
  - A Chinese site that Mark Waite discovered [https://www.jenkins-zh.cn/](https://www.jenkins-zh.cn/)
  - Goal: Redirect all the existing Chinese language pages to their English equivalent
  - Basil Crow has offered to help with the redirect and the nginx / Apache mod\_rewrite changes

- Other Chineses language resources
  - [Jenkins Chinese Community · GitHub](https://github.com/jenkins-zh) organization including a user site and update center references and more

- 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    - Outdated minimum Jenkins version (based on [plugin installation data](https://stats.jenkins.io/pluginversions/electricflow.html))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?