Documentation office hours - Nov 17, 2022

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2022-11-17T18:00:00Z

2022-11-17 (EU/US)

Attendees

Agenda

  • Action items
    • Kevin - Archive docs mailing list, switch to community.jenkins.io for Docs SIG
      • Still needs work done to get to a starting point
    • Mark Waite to propose a pull request documenting the web application server support policy (similar to browser support, Windows support, and Linux support)
      • Many people are saying that “should work” but we don’t test them
        • JENKINS_HOME is different in newer Tomcat
        • No support for multiple Jenkins in a single Tomcat
        • No Java EE 9 support
        • All web containers moved to tier 2 except bundled web container
          • Can declare “known broken” conditions (Java EE vs. Jakarta EE)
          • Pull requests considered so long as they don’t harm tier 1
  • Jenkins elections
  • What are the duties of the documentation officer?
    • Plenty of work reviewing docs pull requests, encouraging contributors, etc.
    • Jenkins documentation site
      • Review, refine, update, and merge pull requests
      • Review and act on issue reports
      • Periodically check for misplaced docs issue reports on Jira
        • We track docs issues on GitHub, but some users report to Jira
        • Potentially archiving, making JIRA project website read-only
      • Review site feedback sheet
      • Create documentation
      • Improve site structure
        • See governance meeting notes for proposed change from “subprojects and SIGs” to “working groups”
        • Mark Waite owes a proposal with that change
    • Jenkins releases
      • Review, revise, approve, and merge weekly changelogs
      • Coordinate creation of LTS changelogs and upgrade guides
    • Wiki to GitHub plugin documentation migration project
    • Advocacy projects
      • Google Summer of Code
      • Hacktoberfest
      • She Code Africa Contributhon
      • Google Season of Docs
    • Jenkins infrastructure documentation
      • Provide in those cases where a writer is a real help
    • What are the benefits?
      • Increased visibility
      • Permissions on the Jenkins docs GitHub repositories
  • Weekly 2.379 automated changelog to be reviewed - Kevin
  • Next LTS - 2.375.1
    • Baseline selected as 2.375
    • Release lead - Alex Brandes
    • Nov. 30th release
    • LTS changelog and upgrade guide needed - Kevin Martens & Mark Waite
      • Changes since 2.361 (subset of the total changes)
      • Changes since 2.375 (backports)
    • 2.375 testing is a good thing to do, check for regressions, issues, surprises
    • RC testing has started
  • Next Thursday (November 24)
    • No Docs office hours, canceled due to Thanksgiving in US
  • Thanksgiving Blog post (for Nov 24)
    • Use Thanksgiving as a great excuse to thank our sponsors
    • CloudBees, AWS, JFrog, Digital Ocean, Red Hat, OSU, Github, CD Foundation, Discourse
    • Logos, visual intention with sponsors
    • Deep gratitude and appreciation for all they do
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