# Documentation office hours - May 29, 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Community\ **Tags:** meeting, sig-docs\ **Created:** [May 29, 2025, 9:41pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-may-29-2025/32032 "2025-05-29T21:41:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
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[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/2X/2/2486cfba06e867efa2e12193cce84ed40a91e09e.jpeg "2025 05 29 Docs Office Hours") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ds0KDeXGbTc) ## 2025-05-29 Attendees: - Kevin Martens - Birajit Saikia - Bruno Verachten - Kris Stern - Mark Waite - Meg McRoberts - Rajiv Singh Agenda - Contributor spotlight - Latest spotlight, [featuring Sacha Labourey](https://contributors.jenkins.io/pages/contributors/sacha-labourey/), published - [Ilan Rabinovitch for May spotlight](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/contributor-spotlight/pull/348) - Meg McRoberts shared her response for a future spotlight - Melissa from JFrog has been sent questionnaire - Lance Albertson from OSUOSL as potential spotlight - Documentation fixes implemented - Added [Java 21 upgrade instructions](https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/platform-information/upgrade-java-to-21/) as they were absent - Updated all installation guides (as needed) for Java 21 - Updated [Jenkinsfile runner tutorial](https://www.jenkins.io/doc/tutorials/using-jenkinsfile-runner-github-action-to-build-jenkins-pipeline/) and Docker tutorial for Java 21 - Only remaining mentions of Java 17 are historical (blog posts, older changelogs, etc) - [Java 25 documentation](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/issues/8002) - Thanks to Kris Stern for creating this issue - Kevin creating list of areas that will need Java 25 update when it is available - Java 21 updates have helped spotlight areas that will need to be updated - [2025 Jenkins Community awards](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2025/05/15/jenkins-contributor-awards-cast-your-vote/) - Updated blog post and Carousel for voting period - 3 Categories: - Most Valuable Contributor - Most Valuable Advocate - Security MVP - Voting open (extended) until Jun 16, 2025 - Winners will be announced at cdCon 2025 (June 23 - 25 2025) - [Revamped Pipeline Visualization](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2025/05/02/pipeline-graph-view/) by Jan Faracik - Highlights and reviews the updates to Pipeline Graph View - Examples of it in Jenkins - [Core build with Pipeline Graph View](https://ci.jenkins.io/job/Core/job/jenkins/job/master/lastSuccessfulBuild/) - Great replacement for Blue Ocean’s pipeline visualization - Link to this in the Blue Ocean status notes/documentation - [Android and Jenkins: What is the limit? (Part 2)](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2025/05/22/jenkins-on-android/) - Thanks to Bruno Verachten for writing this up - Second part to [the original Android & Jenkins blog post](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2023/03/30/android-and-jenkins/) - Reviews running Jenkins on an Android device (including adding agents and building a project from GitHub) - Google Summer of Code 2025 - Kris Stern - [5 projects selected](https://summerofcode.withgoogle.com/programs/2025/organizations/jenkins-wp) - congratulations and looking forward to the program! - Includes retooling of [Jenkins.io](http://jenkins.io) (building with Antora & Gatsby) - Bonding Period is underway and will conclude early next week - Coding Period 1 will commence later next week immediately following the conclusion of the Bonding Period - Contributors are making drafts for both the blog posts as well as community engagement emails. - Most projects (4 out of 5) has scheduled and conducted a kickoff meeting - We are using only Slack channels in the CDF Slack Workspace to communicate for GSoC projects this year - [Chinese documentation site](https://www.jenkins.io/zh/) and [Chinese localization plugin](https://plugins.jenkins.io/localization-zh-cn/) - Planned to retire it, but there are 58,000 installations of the [Chinese localization plugin](https://plugins.jenkins.io/localization-zh-cn/) - Runxia Ye and Mark discussed at FOSDEM - Check the actual usage of the Chinese with analytics - Check the actual usage of Chinese localization - Alternative would be to find a funding source to translate latest messages to Chinese - Kris has created a new issue to initiate adding native Chinese (both traditional and simplified) localization to Jenkins core natively - [https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-75364](https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-75364) - Started to work on planning the best way to approach this, will add details to issue over the next few weeks - The localization is planned to start sometime Summer 2025 - Kris recently adopted the Chinese docs site - Modernization and updates will happen along with localization efforts starting in summer 2025 - Planning to happen in parallel to the GSoC [jenkins.io](http://jenkins.io) retooling project, as we will need to match in terms of tech stack for the versioned docs capability, or have some variants of this. - Are the Jenkins users already English speakers and don’t need Chinese localization? - Potentially include Chinese localization in core and deprecate/disable plugin once it is complete - Not enough data to determine one way or another just yet - Good first issues on [Jenkins.io](http://jenkins.io) - Looking to restock the good first issues - A number of work in progress pages - Kris to create issue for this - LTS and Weekly releases - [2.504.2 Changelog](https://www.jenkins.io/changelog-stable/#v2.504.2) (no notable entries in Upgrade Guide) May 28, 2025 - [2.511 changelog](https://www.jenkins.io/changelog/#v2.511) - May 20, 2025 - [2.512 changelog](https://www.jenkins.io/changelog/#v2.512) - May 27, 2025 - Includes [packaging update from Alex Earl](https://github.com/jenkinsci/packaging/pull/494) - [2025-05-14 Security Advisory](https://www.jenkins.io/security/advisory/2025-05-14/) - Plugins only - Recent work - Thanks to Jesse Glick for [updating the developer docs](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/8118) and [adding the `ControllerToAgentCallable`](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/8117) to the callable-remoting docs. - Thanks to [Birajit](https://github.com/biru-codeastromer) for [fixing some important links](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/8116), [some grammar adjustments](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/8113), and [additional docs updates](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/8110). These will all help towards the GSoC project work. - Google Season of Docs program is closed - Mark Waite - Announced in a [Google Group](https://groups.google.com/g/google-summer-of-code-mentors-list/c/t2LIAn1NCEQ/m/sfww4qe-EAAJ) - Six years of Google Season of Docs - Jenkins participated in one year of Season of Docs (Kubernetes docs) - Kevin updated the [pages mentioning GSoD](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/8115) to indicate its conclusion. - One more [page](https://www.jenkins.io/sigs/docs/gsod/ideas/) that needs an update - Introducing the header redesign as part of the July LTS - Lots of changes to be aware of - Benefit from a blog post pointing out the new header - What’s new LTS broadcast informing users (.2, .3, next .1) - Entries in the upgrade guide reflecting the updated header - Screenshot updates/review for July LTS - New header in July LTS baseline - Will Need screenshots where applicable - Needs to be determined what will be updated - Kevin also working on more specific screenshot guidelines (dimensions, potential tools to use, additional best practices) - Wiki migration redirect instructions - Currently, developer docs instruct users [to create a redirect for the content migrated](https://www.jenkins.io/doc/developer/publishing/wiki-page/#migrating-from-wiki-to-github) - No instructions on how to actually create the redirect - Kevin partnering with Mark Waite & Damien Duportal on what the process involves and steps needed to create and test - Once there are multiple examples, instructions will be updated to include more direct steps/information. - Redirects do not account for URL variation so trying to figure out the best way to capture these and redirect as intended. - Alpha Omega idea - improving open source security for Jenkins users - Mark Waite - Further discussions had at Jenkins Contributor Summit - 31 Jan 2025 - Not expecting any additional projects yet, but Wadeck is working with them periodically - Not right now, but maybe later - Plugin Developer documentation - Topic brought by Antoine Neveux at previous office hours - Lots of warning signs in the documentation saying “work in progress” - How can this be updated/enhanced and provide a more confident experience - What would be the best way to address this? - Improve a plugin tutorial helps, but does not address the developer documentation directly - Blue Ocean Deprecation - Work to remove Blue Ocean from documentation has begun - Tutorials moved towards bottom of page and includes status note - Status notes have been updated to indicate alternatives/replacements for pipeline visualization.