# Documentation office hours - September 8 2023

**URL:** <https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-september-8-2023/10160>\
**Category:** Community\
**Tags:** meeting, sig-docs\
**Created:** [October 13, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-september-8-2023/10160 "2023-10-13T15:25:33Z")\
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**Author:** ![MarkEWaite](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/markewaite/32/20_2.png) [@MarkEWaite](https://community.jenkins.io/u/MarkEWaite)\
**Post date:** [October 13, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/documentation-office-hours-september-8-2023/10160/1 "2023-10-13T15:25:33Z")

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## 2023-09-08 (Asia)

Attendees

- Mark Waite
- Kris Stern

Agenda

- Meeting canceled next week, DevOps World Tour in New York
- Google Summer of Code
  - Docker compose for easier and safer tutorials
    - 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 this morning
      - Kris updated the column layout
      - On track to complete in a few 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
    - 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 needs changes based on the feedback

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

  - Final presentations Sep 14, 2023 - Jenkins Online Meetup

- 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

- 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)

- Adding existing requirements/support policy documentation to System Administration section (new chapter/sections)
  - Diagnosing Kevin’s prototype - debug session