Documentation office hours - Feb 29, 2024

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2024-02-29 (EU/US)

Attendees

  • Kevin Martens
  • Bruno Verachten
  • Kris Stern

Agenda

  • Happy Leap Day (February 29)!
  • LTS 2.440.1 released on February 21
    • Going forward, upgrade guide will have screenshots (just like changelog)
  • Weekly 2.447 released successfully
  • Contributor Summit/FOSDEM recap
    • Thanks to all those who attended and participated in general
    • Thanks to community team for helping with the recap/contributor summit
    • Includes link to slide deck from presentation
  • Google Summer of Code
    • Jenkins has been accepted as a GSoC Organization!
      • Blog post & carousel update published - Thanks to Jean-Marc Meessen for these!
      • Blog post contains timeline and key information
    • Jenkins hosted a Jenkins Online Meetup last two Tuesdays (20 & 27) to introduce project ideas more deeply
      • Covered project ideas in detail
      • Lots of gitter activity & community.jenkins.io
        • 9 good quality/better chance at success project ideas
        • New mentors added recently
        • 2 contributors from last year returning as mentors this year
          • Harsh Singh
          • Vandit Singh
  • Jenkins Community Awards
  • Next documentation office hours Asia - 15 Mar 2024 (the Ides of March)
    • Canceled 23 Feb 2024, 1 Mar 2024, 8 Mar 2024
  • Jira upgrade for issues.jenkins.io
  • Versioned documentation for Jenkins.io
    • Delayed for a bit due to Azure cost savings
    • Kevin, Kris, and Daniel Beck met to discuss Security Advisories and page generation
      • Reassurance for security team in terms of power/speed
    • Kris will be reviewing pull requests to add more Gatsby features
      • Moving some features around from Antora to/from Gatsby
        • Antora is a bit more rigid in its presentation
        • Flexibility & customization from Gatsby
    • Pull request from Daniel Beck regarding individual pages for each version changelog (in addition to the full changelog)
      • Great idea, would be nice and clear for readers using links (instead of relying on anchors and having the full changelog rendered every single time)
  • Maven, Python, and NodeJs tutorial revamps now merged
    • Still need to fix the position of “docker compose up -d” with copy button
      • Found that tutorials do not have copy button functionality
      • Maven tutorials helped a user get started (thanks to Docker Compose!!!)
    • Multibranch pipeline next
      • Needs a few changes to make sure that everything works correctly
      • The React code is not working at the moment, things need to be updated to connect properly.
    • Eventually incorporate Docker Compose into installation docs
  • Adding sponsor attributions
    • Governance board action item to create a sponsors page
      • Can then use subsets of the sponsors page on other pages
    • Request comes from a friend of Jenkins at JFrog to add attribution to downloads page
    • AWS has donated $60000 to Jenkins
    • Digital Ocean has donated for both 2023 & 2024 and should be visible (with icon)
    • Microsoft has donated as well
    • Ampere has donated 2 ARM64 servers as well!
      • First time sponsorship with Ampere (in the works for about one year)
      • Currently being stored at Mark Waite’s house