Documentation office hours - September 19, 2024

[kmartens27 (Kevin Martens)]

2024 09 19 Docs Office Hours

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
  • Link to changelog & upgrade guide
• Blog posts & Election updates
  • GSoC blog recaps
    • Enhancing an Existing LLM Model
    • Manage jenkinsci GitHub permissions as code
    • Using OpenRewrite Recipes for Plugin Modernization
    • Thanks to all of the contributors for their work on their respective projects!
  • Recent brownouts
    • September 11 - 12 Brownout
    • 6 & 9 September
    • Goal is to ensure the changes for Jenkins Update Center are not disruptive to services. Ideally this would go unnoticed for users.
  • Jenkins Governance Board & Officers
    • Voter registration is now open until October 31 2024
      • Join voter registration group
    • 6 nominees for Board positions
    • 2 nominees for Release Officer
    • 1 nominee for other officer positions
• Documentation issue updates
  • Remove usage of instance
  • Basil advocating for more clear/concise wording for Jenkins controller & agents in the docs
    • In need of review: Security, Developer documentation, tutorials
    • Merged: Pipeline docs, Installing docs, Scaling docs, Managing docs
• 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
      • Test coverage improvement
        • JENKINS-70464 - Embeddable build status plugin
        • JENKINS-69756 - Node label parameter plugin
        • JENKINS-69757 - Priority sorter plugin
• 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.