Documentation office hours November 03, 2023

2023-11-03T02:30:00Z

2023-11-03 (Asia)

Attendees

  • Kris Stern
  • Mark Waite

Agenda

  • GSoC 2024 preparation
    • Kris Stern is leading the GSoC project in 2024
    • Initial documents to organize the event
    • Collecting ideas and recruiting mentors
    • Willing to consider documentation ideas for 2024 as well
    • Helping with organization
      • Alyssa Tong
      • Bruno Verachten
      • Jean-Marc Meessen
  • Contributor spotlight
  • Versioned documentation for Jenkins.io
    • Vandit and Kris continue to make progress
    • Trying to complete work before the holidays in India
    • Wants to bring the site live by end of November
      • Kris is trying with Vandit
  • 2.426.1 changelog, upgrade guide, and backports
  • Hacktoberfest 2023
    • Advocacy data to report:
    • Total number of PR created in jenkinsci and jenkins-infra: 1029 (was 1183 in 2022, -13%)
    • Count of Hacktoberfest PRs 415 (was 613 in 2022, -32%)
    • Count of Hacktoberfest submitters: 81 (was 117 in 2022, -31%)
    • Validated Hacktoberfest PR: 356 (was 531 in 2022, -33%)
    • Validated submitters: 68 (was 95 in 2022, -28%)
    • The dip in participation was felt across other projects as well, but the spam rate was much much lower than previous years
    • Positive experience for Kris Stern and Mark Waite
  • Gitlab plugin
    • Still needs testing, still action item for Mark Waite