Documentation office hours - March 7, 2024

Community
,
1

2024-03-07 (EU/US)

Attendees

  • Kevin Martens
  • Bruno Verachten
  • Pranav Singh

Agenda

  • LTS 2.440.2 to be released on Mar 20, 2024
  • Contributor Spotlight for Stefan Spieker
    • Published yesterday, tweet sent out today for better visibility in EU timezones
  • Weekly 2.448 released successfully
  • Security Advisory March 6 2024
    • Only includes plugins
  • 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
    • 9 Draft proposals thus far
      • Review has started to some degree (not official, more for advising/mentoring)
    • Another new mentor, welcome Laura!
    • Contributor Application period starts Mar 18, 2024
      • Application period ends Apr 2, 2024
      • Take your time(!!!)
      • Build your Jenkins muscles!
    • Last day to submit draft proposal is Mar 22, 2024
    • 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 in January (20 & 27) to introduce project ideas more deeply
      • More meetups to come!
      • 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
  • Jira upgrade for issues.jenkins.io
  • Next documentation office hours Asia - 15 Mar 2024 (the Ides of March)
    • Canceled 8 Mar 2024
  • 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 (almost ready for review, pending 2 PR merged)
      • 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 (thanks Aaron) (in the works for about one year)
      • Currently being stored at Mark Waite’s house
    • Pine64 CEO conversation as well at FOSDEM
      • Bruno has received some components at this time
    • Pioneer Devboard Program (RISC-V & others)