Documentation office hours - September 20, 2024

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2024-09-20T02:30:00Z

2024-09-20 (Asia)

Attendees:

  • Mark Waite
  • Kris Stern

Agenda

  • Contributor spotlight: Olivier Lamy (September 10, 2024)
    • Next contributor is already in the queue
  • Jenkins election announcement blog post
    • Nominations are closed
      • 6 nominees for 3 positions on the Jenkins governance board
    • Voter registration is now open
    • Mark submit the pull request (likely tomorrow)
  • Diagnose the email notification of the Jenkins release candidate
  • Plugin BOM new maintainers
  • Spring Security 6.x Update
    • Jenkins weekly 2.475 and 2.476 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 EE 9
      • Maintains compatibility (mostly)
        • Few plugins like LDAP that must be lockstep upgrade
    • Next LTS baseline selected 18 Sep 2024
      • 2.477, 2.476, or 2.475 all possible candidates (no major issues)
  • 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
      • Need to review the issues and assign “good first issue” label
      • Kevin is reviewing further to find other good first issues
    • 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
    • New site docs.jenkins.io and its issue list