Documentation office hours - June 13, 2024

2024-06-13T16:00:00Z

2024-06-13 (EU/US)

Attendees

  • Kevin Martens
  • Bruno Verachten
  • Mark Waite
  • Kris Stern

Agenda

  • Weekly 2.462 built and delivered
  • Jenkins weekly will require Java 17 beginning June 18, 2024 (2.463)
    • Basil Crow created a blog post to announce it
    • Agreement that the next LTS baseline will be before June 18, 2024
      • Next LTS line will support Java 11
      • Java 11 support in LTS ends Oct 30, 2024
    • Jun, July, Aug, Sep releases all continue to support Java 11
      • Oct 30 is the new line, drop Java 11 support
    • See the JVM graph for latest data
    • Java 11 container images for weekly will not be updated
      • AlmaLinux controller container is end of life
  • LTS releases
    • LTS 2.452.2 released yesterday (June 12 2024)
      • Kris Stern is release lead
      • Mark Waite backport pull request merged for two recent issues
        • JENKINS-73047 - Strokes in weather icons are too wide on enlarged Safari views
        • JENKINS-73252 - Silence security scanners by updating bundled bouncycastle API plugin
          • These were added to the changelog by Mark (thanks very much)!
    • 2.452.3 scheduled to be released Jul 10, 2024
      • Kris Stern has volunteered to be release lead
      • Release candidate scheduled to be available June 26 2024
    • Next LTS baseline to be decided by Jun 26, 2024 as well.
  • Contributor spotlight: Vandit Singh
    • Published a bit later than usual
    • Have also received responses from Harsh Singh and Rajiv Singh
    • Suggested to add Darin Pope, videos are great, spread in many doc pages
    • Adding a new feature to the site
      • Contributor data collection by Jean-Marc Meessen
        • Leveraging some of the data to highlight a random contributor
      • Thank random contributors based on recent GitHub data
      • Similar to the thanks that are shown on the Eclipse Adoptium
        • Using the Pipeline code from Jean-Marc Meessen
      • Data provider has been implemented by Jean-Marc Meessen
  • Blog post from Damien Duportal thanking mirror sponsors
    • Nice to show appreciation to our mirror sponsors as they provide a different type of sponsorship than others
  • Google Summer of Code project - improve infra stats site
    • Coding period has started
    • Contributors are still in examinations, not yet fully involved
      • Logistics on data fetching still needs to be discussed with Herve Le Meur
    • Infrastructure stats site project as currently in the infra-statistics repository
    • July 11 for mid-term presentations
  • Versioned docs project
    • The docs.jenkins.io site is running
      • Vandit will help with bug fixes
      • Kris has taken responsibility to sync the content from the official site
        • Plans to update monthly
      • Enable recent as the default (use most recent version)
        • Versioning is done manually
    • Report issues to the jenkins-infra/docs.jenkins.io repository
    • Still some work to do before it is integrated with jenkins.io
      • Confirmed that the new content is visible on the new site
  • Jenkins switch from Jetty 10 to Jetty 12 EE 8
    • Likely delayed until July
    • 3 blocking issues in Jenkins Jira that need to be investigated and resolved
      • JENKINS-73127 - Jetty 12 test failure in Security3030Test
      • JENKINS-73128 - Jetty 12 test failure in PluginTest on Windows
        • Mark is working it, though it needs more study to address Basil’s questions
      • JENKINS-73129 - Jetty 12 test failures in DirectoryBrowserSupportTest
        • Mark is working it, pull request submitted to Jenkins core
  • Jenkins switch from Jetty 12 EE 8 to Jetty 12 EE 9
    • Moving from javax.servlet to jakarta.servlet
    • Date not yet known - running
    • Bruno has created a sample that builds a docker container with the prototype inside
      • Mark has it running and it works
      • See the quickstart-tutorials project on GitHub
        • Checkout the spring-security branch
        • Mark built his own with
          • docker compose -f build-docker-compose.yaml --profile maven up -d
        • Can use already built version with:
          • docker compose --profile maven up -d
        • Stop the experiment with:
          • docker compose --profile maven down -v --remove-orphans
    • Needs lots of exploratory testing
      • Watch for any form that accepts data but does not retain the next time it is opened
      • Watch for stack traces in Jenkins log output
      • Mark has been running versions of it for about 2 weeks
    • Special thanks to Basil Crow and Adrien Lecharpentier for their work