Documentation Office Hours - Jul 7, 2023

[MarkEWaite (Mark Waite)]

2023-07-07T03:00:00Z

2023 07 07 Docs Office Hours

2023-07-07 (Asia)

Attendees

• Mark Waite
• Meg McRoberts
• Kris Stern
• Ashutosh Saxena

Agenda

• Google Summer of Code
  • Midterm presentations completed July 6, 2023
    • Slides and recording are available for the the webinar
    • First time presenting to a group in an online meeting
      • Practiced multiple times to assure the slides were correct
      • See his portion of the presentation
  • Midterm evaluations are due from lead mentors of each project to Google July 14, 2023
    • Mentors need to agree on their evaluation content before the deadline
  • Docker quickstart
    • Focused on the midterm presentation
    • Mark’s pull request to update plugin versions
      • Considering to use updatecli
        • Jenkins plugin installation manager understands versions and dependencies
    • Bruno Verachten additional pull requests for experiments
      • NodeJS tutorial
      • Python tutorial
    • See the GitHub - ash-sxn/GSoC-2023-docker-based-quickstart: Repository for GSoC 2023 Docker-based Jenkins quick start examples. demo
      • Created a job, ran the job, watched it run on the agent
      • Installed a plugin, confirmed it worked, saw that the agent and controller were Debian
  • Building jenkins.io with alternate tools - prototype site
    • New pull request has been submitted for the solutions pages
    • Minor work on the main site to fix redirections
• Open pull requests of interest
  • Administering Jenkins on Kubernetes from Tanuj Sharma
    • PR-6474 proposes an outline, needs review from those who know Kubernetes
      • Initial feedback from Bruno and Mark included in the outline
      • Jenkins on Kubernetes rather than Administering Jenkins on Kubernetes
      • Install instructions become purely configuration with an opening link to the Kubernetes install chapter
        • Include the “Configuration Management” info in this section
      • Link from installation page to this new configuration page
      • Review and correct content in the Kubernetes install pages
      • More generic name like “reliability” so that users understand the limitations of Jenkins in Kubernetes
        • Loss of a pod requires start of a new pod, some downtime during the restart
      • Link from the Kubernetes specific sections to relevant general purpose pages
        • Troubleshooting k8s should link to the general purpose page in addition to Kubernetes specific information
      • Invite reviewers to compare existing content and k8s content for improvements in both places
  • JE-Chen
    • PR-6478 - Best practices is ready to review and merge
  • Scripting and security page
    • PR-4693 has comments that Kevin or Mark could use to revise it further and merge it
• Mark Waite out of office July 14, 2023 and July 20, 2023
  • Meetings removed from the Jenkins calendar
  • Next meeting, July 27, 2023