Documentation office hours - October 3, 2024

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2024-10-03 (EU/US)

Attendees:

  • Bruno Verachten
  • Kevin Martens

Agenda

  • Contributor Spotlight
    • Currently featuring Shivay Lamba
    • Next will be Adrien Lecharpentier
    • Kevin interviewing several contributors for future spotlights
      • There will be enough to publish through November/into December
  • Hacktoberfest blog post & Hacktoberfest page
    • Darin, Mark, and Bruno are planning for Hacktoberfest
      • Include Kris in the planning (copy the documents, etc.)
    • List of issues in Jenkins JIRA
      • Refined by Darin, Basil, Mark, and Bruno
    • Video series with Darin on various developer topics
      • Extension of the “Improve a plugin” tutorial
      • Maintain a plugin tutorial
        • Source code formatting
        • Enabling Jenkins security scan
        • Frequency of updating the parent pom
        • Frequency of updating plugin BOM
  • Blog posts
  • Jenkins elections
    • Voter registration announcement
      • Open until Oct 31, 2024
      • Includes list of candidates, contributing information/guide, and timeline for registration, voting, and election results
      • Join election-voter-2024 group to ensure that you are eligible to vote
      • Any questions, reach out to the election committee
    • Candidate statements
      • Statements included for all candidates of governance board & release officer
      • Includes contributor spotlights where applicable
      • Positions with only 1 nominee will not include candidate statements as there will not be voting for those positions
  • Weekly 2.479 and LTS 2.462.3 as security release
    • Security advisory 2024-10-02
    • Security release, handled by Jenkins Security team
      • Thanks for their work on this
    • Changelogs & upgrade guide available
  • Next LTS baseline looks to be 2.479
    • Mark Waite is release lead
    • Kevin is creating changelog & upgrade guide for 2.479.1
    • Major changes including Java 17 requirement and upgrade to Spring Security 6
    • By choosing 2.479 this will include the security update that would need to be backported anyway
  • GSoC 2024 officially wraps up
    • Last (the 5th) project’s final review submitted by lead mentor
      • Completed Philip Glanz project with Alex Brandes as mentor
    • All contributors passed successfully this year
    • On to preparing for GSoC 2025 for Jenkins
      • Mentor recruitment
      • Project ideas brainstorming
      • Use Hacktoberfest as a starting point for GSoC candidates
    • Mark and Bruno are deeply grateful for stats.jenkins.io
  • Should upgrading to Java 11 documentation be removed after the October release?
    • End of October LTS will require Java 17, users will need to upgrade their Java versions prior to upgrade