Documentation office hours - Dec 1, 2022

2022-12-01T18:00:00Z

Agenda

  • Action items
    • Archive ‘WEBSITE’ component on Jira, focus on Github issues
      • Ticket submitted by Alex Brandes to help desk
    • Kevin - Archive docs mailing list, switch to community.jenkins.io for Docs SIG
      • Still needs work done to get to a starting point
    • Mark Waite to propose a pull request documenting the web application server support policy (similar to browser support, Windows support, and Linux support)
      • Done by Basil Crow
  • Jenkins elections
    • Announced and transition started, Alex & Ulli attended governance meeting
    • Dec 3, 2022 starts the term of the new officers and board members
  • November newsletter
    • Alyssa gathered
    • Bruno has submitted the pull request, a few things to adapt
      • Hope to have it reviewed and published next Monday
    • Submitters were a great help
  • End of December newsletter
    • Looking back at 12 months of Jenkins progress - what should we highlight?
      • Specific examples of sponsor contributions and how they are used
      • Major changes in Jenkins
        • JDK 11 and JDK 17
        • User experience improvement
        • Plugins improved
        • Doc site search improvement (thanks to Algolia and Gavin Mogan)
      • Proposals to the Google Doc as first draft
  • LTS - 2.375.1 released
    • Needed revisions to the upgrade guide after release
      • Reviewer (Mark) didn’t look deeply enough at the source material
      • Winstone 6.4 in the baseline, backported Winstone 6.6
        • Removed some additional command line arguments
        • Removed arguments had been deprecated for many years
    • Ratings (scores) look good so far
  • Thanksgiving Blog post retrospective - wait for Kevin to discuss and refine
    • Learned many things from the experience
    • Next year
      • plan the blog post sooner
      • prepare it without requiring project contributors work on a holiday
  • Interesting documentation pull requests and topics
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