Documentation office hours - October 6, 2023

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2023-10-06T02:30:00Z

2023-10-06 (Asia)

Attendees

  • Kris Stern
  • Mark Waite

Agenda

  • Google Summer of Code
    • Versioned documentation for Jenkins.io
      • Kris Stern has started the conversations with the infra team to decide on details
    • Preparing the Antora site to be hosted at docs.jenkins.io for versioned documentation
      • Raise a ticket with the infra
      • Still some features that are needed
      • Events page does not yet have cards, but does have a calendar
      • See the prototype site
        • Needs to sync with the most recent www.jenkins.io pages
        • Needs to include most recent LTS as the initial tag
      • LTS baselines will be used as 2.401.x, 2.414.x, 2.426.x
    • All four projects completed successfully
    • Work is pending to deploy
      • GitLab Plugin Modernization - testing, merge, etc.
      • Docker compose - infrastructure and more automation
      • Versioned documentation - look at the text above
  • Hacktoberfest 2023
    • Advocacy has data to report
      • 55 Hacktoberfest pull requests
      • 36 validated (merged or accepted)
      • 24 Hacktoberfest contributors
      • Spam rate is much less than previous years
      • Contribution rate is lower as well
  • Jenkins governance board & officer elections 2023
  • Java 11, Java 17, and Java 21 discussion (see Google Doc from Mark Waite)
    • 2+2+2 support model for each JDK LTS release (Java 17, 21, 25, 29, 33, …)
      • 2 years supported but not required
      • 2 years required
      • 2 years unsupported
    • Mark has a timeline diagram
    • Mark to create the Jenkins Enhancement Proposal
  • How to describe the process of choosing a plugin bill of materials version
    • Needs more work, no progress yet
    • The “improve a plugin tutorial” instructions has the updates to choose a plugin bill of materials version
  • September Newsletter
    • Content needed from Mark Waite