Documentation office hours - September 19, 2024

2024-09-19 (EU/US)

Attendees:

  • Kevin Martens
  • Mark Waite

Agenda

  • Docs office hours back to more regular schedule
    • Moving to every other week so that it aligns with other SIG meeting schedules
    • Ask Mark if he can update the calendar accordingly
  • Contributor spotlight: Olivier Lamy published September 10, 2024)
    • Shivay Lamba next after Olivier (to be published Sep 24, 2024)
  • Spring Security 6.x Update
    • Jenkins weekly 2.475, 2.476, and 2.477 use Spring Security 6
      • Switches from Spring Security 5 to 6
      • Switches from Java EE 8 to Jakarta EE 9
      • Switches from Jetty 10 to Jetty 12
      • Maintains compatibility (mostly)
        • Few plugins like LDAP that must be lockstep upgrade
    • Next LTS baseline selected 18 Sep 2024
      • 2.477 suggested as possible candidate
      • Kevin starting work on compiling upgrade guide/changelog for 2.47*.1 release
  • LTS 2.462.3 scheduled for 2 October 2024
  • Blog posts & Election updates
  • Documentation issue updates
  • Hacktoberfest preparation (1 - 31 Oct 2024)
    • Identifying good first issues in Jenkins documentation (currently 4)
      • Criteria
        • Useful to Jenkins
        • Well suited to a new contributor
    • Kevin is reviewing further to find other good first issues
      • Added some in for UI screenshot updates to align with Manage Jenkins changes
    • Identifying friendly issues in Jenkins Jira (currently 50)
      • Criteria
        • Useful to Jenkins
        • Well suited to a new contributor
        • Part of an actively maintained component
          • Not up for adoption
          • If a new contributor submits to an unmaintained plugin, their pull request is ignored
          • Part of a component that has the hacktoberfest topic
      • Some samples that have lots of work that can be spread widely
  • DevOps World Virtual - Sep 17, 2024
    • Mark to posted the announcement and invitation to a brief user interface survey to
      • Community site
      • User mailing list
    • Jenkins board and Jenkins officers spoke at the conference along with a Q&A after.