# Documentation office hours - Mar 4, 2022

**URL:** https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-mar-4-2022/1776
**Category:** Community
**Tags:** meeting, sig-docs
**Created:** [March 11, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-mar-4-2022/1776 "2022-03-11T01:10:13Z")
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### Author: ![MarkEWaite](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/markewaite/32/20_2.png) [@MarkEWaite](https://community.jenkins.io/u/MarkEWaite)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2022, 1:10am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-mar-4-2022/1776/1 "2022-03-11T01:10:13Z")

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2022-03-04T02:00:00Z

[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/2X/7/740985f3c8d12ec8a75c4c29b644fa8cbd8d4ed5.jpeg "2022 03 04 Docs Office Hours") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiBWZls_lf4)

**Participants**

Mark Waite (@MarkEWaite), Dheeraj Singh Jodha (@dheerajodha) , Meg McRoberts, Kristin Whetstone

**Notes**

- News
  - Jenkins 2.337 released with several fixes for image and icon issues
    - Thanks to Docs office hours for changelog review

  - Jenkins 2.332.1 release candidate
    - [Changelog and upgrade guide draft pull request](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/4960) is ready
    - UI improvements
      - Tables
      - New item
      - New node
      - Manage Jenkins
      - Plugin Manager
      - System Info
      - Log recorder
      - About
      - Environment variables

    - May include [Linux installer based on systemd](https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/mRxFPGfuljA/m/y7Rb96V5AgAJ)

- [2.332.1 changelog and upgrade guide](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/4960)
  - Submitted and ready for review

- Weekly changelog discussion
  - Are the Monday reviews helpful?
    - Mark is thrilled with the reviews from others
    - Basil wrote a pull request template that notes we use imperative phrasing

  - Review and discussion of samples

- Interactive test
  - Additional review of pull requests is coming

- Linux installers switch from System V init to systemd
  - Make the switch now, 2.332.1, or wait 3 months?
    - Is 3 weeks of testing in the weekly enough to switch
    - Based on bug reports, it is enough
    - Is there more data that highlights how many installs of the weekly release?
      - Mark to investigate the data, see what we can infer

  - Needs a documentation page, [“Managing systemd services”](https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/system-administration/systemd-services/)
    - Where does it belong?
      - In System Administration

    - What topics should be covered?
      - Reloading service definitions
      - Registering services
      - Viewing service configurations
      - Overriding service configurations
      - Starting services
      - Stopping services
      - Reading service logs
      - Pruning service logs

    - What reference documentation could we consider?
      - [Original systemd documentation](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/)
      - [Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 docs](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/7/html/system_administrators_guide/chap-managing_services_with_systemd)
      - [DigitalOcean Tutorial](https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-use-systemctl-to-manage-systemd-services-and-units)

  - See [Jenkins developer mailing list proposal](https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/mRxFPGfuljA/m/y7Rb96V5AgAJ)
  - Should we have a “Managing Jenkins on Linux”?
    - Mark tends away from this one because of how broad it is

- Google Summer of Code
  - Office hours start in 30 minutes
  - Gitter chat channel is getting questions and discussions
  - Friendly issues are being attempted

- She Code Africa Contributhon
  - Mark submitted [project ideas](https://community.jenkins.io/t/she-code-africa-contributhon-2022/253) before end of February
    - Project manager mentored by Mark Waite - not submitted
    - Inclusive naming initiative changes for popular plugins - 2 people
    - Screenshot updates for [www.jenkins.io](http://www.jenkins.io) - 2 people
      - Interactive creation (not automated)
      - Automation article by a CloudBees person very interesting

    - Pipeline improvements (last year) - 2 people
    - Test the tutorials, report issues, improve the tutorials - not submitted
    - Consider “Troubleshooting” as a section worked by a team

  - Need mentors available during Africa daylight hours
  - Timeline
    - April - mid-May (2 weeks of community bonding, 4 weeks development)
    - Selection happening in March

- Adding a “Troubleshooting” section to User Handbook
  - Trying an operation in Jenkins fails, works from the command line
    - Selenium tests
    - Operating system user specific tests
    - PATH specific conditions
    - …

  - Zainab will submit a pull request to start that move

- Open PR’s