# Documentation office hours - September 21, 2023

**URL:** <https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-september-21-2023/10161>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** meeting, sig-docs\
**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 3:27pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-september-21-2023/10161 "2023-10-13T15:27:42Z")\
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[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/2X/a/ab93fb149ea4708a8ec747a39c4a69fe2449f457.jpeg "2023 09 21 Docs Office Hours") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KSb06WktCxI)

## 2023-09-21 (EU/US)

Attendees

- Kevin Martens
- [Bruno Verachten](mailto:bverachten@cloudbees.com)
- Mark Waite

Agenda

- [Hacktoberfest 2023](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2023/09/20/Hacktoberfest-2023/) - Jean-Marc Meessen
  - 10th year!
  - No physical swag this year, first 50,000 to complete A pull requests will have a tree planted in their name. Digital reward kit for all participants that complete at least 1 pull request
  - Includes resources and guidance for contributors & maintainers that wish to participate.

- [Jenkins governance board & officer elections 2023](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2023/09/18/board-officer-election-announcement/) - Alexander Brandes
  - 2 governance board positions up for election
  - All 5 officer positions up for election
  - Voter registration is now open (to vote you must join the [election-voter-2023 group](https://community.jenkins.io/g/election-voter-2023))
    - Voter registration ends on November 5

  - Nominations are open as of September 18 and will close on October 27
  - Includes key dates

- Google Summer of Code
  - 2 projects complete and 2 that have been extended and will finish up in the next two weeks.
  - [Final presentations Sep 14, 2023 - Jenkins Online Meetup](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9_HPQwetMg)
  - Docker compose for easier and safer tutorials - Ashutosh
    - Complete as a project, needs work to deploy and include in the docs
      - Need containers and a repository to host them and jobs to maintain them
      - Need infra team (hope during Hacktoberfest)

  - Versioned documentation for [Jenkins.io](http://Jenkins.io) - Vandit Singh
    - Still developing - see the [demo site](https://vandit1604.github.io/jenkins-ui-project/user-docs/2.2/index.html)
    - Using Gatsby as the front end and GitHub for review
    - Pull requests arriving, blog post layout arrived in last couple weeks
      - Kris updated the column layout
      - On track to complete in a couple weeks

    - Still under development for the final layout
    - Antora site now has fixed most of the broken links and the dropdown menus
      - See the navigation that we did

  - GitLab plugin modernization, project finished but code not merged yet in plugin
    - Interactive testing by Mark Waite has been delayed by work
      - Needs more testing, more comparison of old and new behavior
      - See the test outlines that are in the project meeting notes

  - Plugin health score
    - Two blog posts pull requests from Jagruti - one merged, one pending
      - [Merged pull request](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/6645) needs changes based on the feedback
      - [Renovate probe blog post](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2023/09/20/renovate-bot-probe-blog/)

    - Progressing towards the end of the project
      - Adrien has returned from holidays

- Java 11, Java 17, and Java 21 discussion (see [Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1y3RVlniNmz-5Nd3LI-w58LDf760Ai7FqssP4zHuTv8U/edit#heading=h.c8iwpg0yclz) from Mark Waite)
  - Mark has a [timeline diagram](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Gc-0yuYOD5u674qnxbPOWhCU5t9viCJukVj_9b-kwAw/edit?usp=sharing) for discussion with others
  - Discussion, next steps, etc.
  - More work needed, pictures to help explain
  - Mark show his picture (draft form)
  - Going through Tutorials and documentation
    - Works with Java 21

- Adding existing requirements/support policy documentation to System Administration section (new chapter/sections)
  - [Pull request submitted for addition](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/6685)
    - Reviewed by docs team, being updated accordingly and redirects need to be updated for the revised filenames.

- [DevOps World Tour](https://www.devopsworld.com/)
  - First stop was last week
  - Jenkins “afterhours” session after the conclusion of DevOps World Tour
  - Business benefits of contributing to open source - New York, Chicago, and Santa Clara - Mark Waite
  - Singapore - Olivier Lamy
  - London - December 5, 2023

- How to describe the process of choosing a plugin bill of materials version
  - No progress since last week
    - None expected for 2-4 weeks due to other priorities

  - Described in [issue 2359](https://github.com/jenkinsci/bom/issues/2359#issuecomment-1672145887)
  - Consider using updatecli to update the version string explicitly in the documentation
  - Consider including static references to older versions in addition to the most recent release
  - Consider adding a blog post that highlights how to do it

- August Newsletter
  - Shorter, August was a bit slow/quiet for content