Documentation office hours - June 7, 2024

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2024-06-07T02:30:00Z

2024-06-07 (Asia)

Attendees

  • Mark Waite
  • Kris Stern
  • Meg McRoberts

Agenda

  • Weekly 2.461 built and delivered
  • Jenkins weekly will require Java 17 beginning June 18, 2024
    • Basil Crow creating 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
  • 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
      • JENKINS-73129 - Jetty 12 test failure in DirectoryBrowserSupportTest
        • Mark is working on this one
  • 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
  • Next LTS release 2.452.2 scheduled Jun 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
    • Final release June 12, 2024
    • Kevin Martens created changelog and upgrade guide, needs to be reviewed and merge
  • 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
  • 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
  • Contributor spotlight: Jan Faracik May 22 2024
  • Recent change from Meg McRoberts
    • Reviewed and resolved a merge conflict in a pull request