Documentation office hours - October 02, 2025

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2025-10-02

Attendees:

  • Kevin Martens

  • Bruno Verachten

  • Mark Waite

  • Birajit Saikia

Agenda

  • Kevin’s status with documentation

  • Contributor spotlight

  • Java 25 documentation

    • Thanks to Kris Stern for creating this issue

    • Kevin created list of areas that will need Java 25 update when it is available

      • Based on Java 21 updates, may need further additions if discovered

    • Full Java 25 support planned for Fall ‘25

      • Community plugins maintainer initiative not happening with this

        • Not enough capacity at this time

        • Rely on community and individual contributors working on things as they can

        • Will take longer due to change in capacity/plans.

        • 150+ plugins already successful with Java 25, core does not support Java 25 yet

        • No container images yet, winstone & jetty still need updates as well

    • Java 25 early access now in use on ci.jenkins.io and available in agents

  • Jenkins Board & Officer Elections

    • Nomination period closed, Voter Registration now open

    • 2 governance board positions & all officer positions are eligible for nomination

    • Key time frames for election

      • Nomination of candidates (August 8 - September 22)

      • Voter registration is open now (September 16 - October 31)

      • Voting (November 1 - November 30)

      • Results announcement (December 1)

    • Voting does require registering an account on community.jenkins.io and we encourage people to contribute as part of the process.

  • Hacktoberfest 2025 announcement blog

    • Thanks to Kris for putting this together

    • Hacktoberfest has officially begun

  • Google Summer of Code 2025

    • 3 projects are complete, 2 others have been granted extensions to continue their work.

    • Retooling Jenkins.io

      • About 15% work left, Birajit had to replace his computer, but there is now roughly 7% left

      • Home page & Algolia search still need some work

      • Antora site: main work to be done in the navbar and some UI fixes in the page

    • End of term presentations delivered September 3

    • Recording will be made available and linked in GSoC page

    • End of term blog posts from contributors will be published as they are approved & merged

  • Chinese documentation site and Chinese localization plugin

    • Planned to retire it, but there are 58,000 installations of the Chinese localization plugin

    • 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

      • 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

      • Will need to have a meeting with Mark Waite to discuss details later when Mark will be free

      • Planning to happen in parallel to the GSoC 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.

      • May not use the exact same tooling as the docs.jenkins.io site, but will follow as much as possible what can be done. Propose to use Docusaurus – https://docusaurus.io/ for the revamped Chinese site.

      • Planning on starting later this month (August, relative to work being done in GSoC)

    • 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

    • Looking to restock the good first issues

    • A number of work in progress pages

    • Thanks to Meg for creating some good first issues

    • Need to review feedback to see if there are any additional good first issues

      • Kevin to generate a summary of the feedback from 2025 to discovery any good first issues

  • LTS and Weekly releases

  • Recent work

  • 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.

    • Not likely to happen until end of 2025/beginning 2026