# Documentation office hours - May 13, 2022

**URL:** https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-may-13-2022/2446
**Category:** Community
**Tags:** meeting, sig-docs
**Created:** [May 17, 2022, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-may-13-2022/2446 "2022-05-17T13:04:08Z")
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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: [May 17, 2022, 1:04pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-may-13-2022/2446/1 "2022-05-17T13:04:08Z")

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2022-05-13T02:00:00Z

[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/2X/1/13d2137f24274578a0c3061ff3367e2182b5e7b5.jpeg "2022 05 13 Docs Office Hours") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPwQtUTGsa4)

**Participants**

Mark Waite (@MarkEWaite), Kristin Whetstone (@kwhetstone)

**Notes**

- News
- She Code Africa Contributhon - Mark
  - One week from the end of development
    - Switch to writing final reports, summarizing results
    - Use [community.jenkins.io](http://community.jenkins.io) for those final reports (easy edit)
    - Final blog post on [www.jenkins.io](http://www.jenkins.io)

  - Inclusive naming project - multiple pull requests
    - Work will continue

  - Screenshot updates project - multiple pull requests
    - Work will continue

  - Pipeline help project - complicated, just like last year
    - Too complicated for next year
    - Can we encourage plugin maintainers to improve their help?
      - Plugin health improvement project include help content assessment as a part of the score
      - Future addition to the “Contributing to Open Source” doc

  - Ends mid-May, two weeks of conclusion and final reports

- June LTS baseline selection - Mark
  - 2.346 is the baseline
  - Release date has been moved from June 1, 2022 to June 15, 2022
    - Took a 3 week delay choosing the baseline
    - Tim Jacomb approved a 2 week delay in release date

  - Kevin Martens and Mark have started the [changelog and upgrade guide](https://github.com/MarkEWaite/jenkins.io/tree/june-lts-changelog)
    - Changelog categories
      - UX improvements
      - Configuration as code enhancements
      - Agent fixes
      - Component upgrades

    - Upgrade guide entries
      - PNG and GIF icons replaced with SVG icons
        - Working on the “long tail” of plugins with old references

      - JNR removed
      - Self-signed certificates no longer provided automatically

- Require Java 11 is now planned for the Sep 2022 LTS - Mark
  - Java 8 end of support by the Jenkins project
  - Drop support for Java 8 in weekly May 31, 2022 Jenkins 2.350 release
    - Controller support end
    - Agent support end
    - Java 8 tools to run Java 8 build and test still supported

  - Final date is still under discussion, but May 31, 2022 looks likely for weekly
    - Sept 2022 LTS for first LTS that requires Java 11 or newer

  - Java 11 fixes and improvements
    - JAXB library has some “surprises” in Java 11

- Internationalization and localization meetup - see the recording
  - Recording available at [community.jenkins.io](https://community.jenkins.io/t/localizing-jenkins-with-crowdin-enterprise/2396)
  - Need better documentation on internationalizing core and plugins
  - Lots of work to register plugins with Crowdin, internationalize them, and localize them
  - Great to see a plugin happen automatically after three stages
    - Translation
    - Proofreading → pull request
    - Maintainer merge

- Google Summer of Code - Kristin
  - Multiple projects proposed for Google Summer of Code projects
  - If one of the docs related projects is selected, would be good to invite the student to attend this meeting
    - Pipeline steps doc generator
    - Automatic screenshot generation
    - Automatic REST api generator
    - Good to be involved and help with those as docs contributors

  - May 20, 2022 Google announces the projects and start community bonding
    - Ask org admins to schedule a welcome meeting
    - Docs SIG presents something to help them get started

- Backlog of pull requests
  - Triage and revise or close the outdated pull requests