2026-04-13T16:30:00Z
13 Apr 2026
Attendees 
- @slide_o_mix (Alex Earl)
- Alexander Brandes
- @strangelookingnerd (Daniel Krämer)
- @MarkEWaite (Mark Waite)
- Stefan Spieker
Upcoming Calendar 
- Next weekly release: 2.559 Tuesday April 14, 2026
- Next LTS: 2.555.1 April 15, 2026
Agenda
News
- Jenkins Bug Bounty
- Jenkins Contributor Awards
- Voting started on April 5 and will close on May 5
- Winners announced May 18 at cdCon
- Jenkins GSoC starting up
- Folks have submitted proposals for the projects
- GSoC Timeline
- cdCon 2026
- Mark Waite is controller of ceremonies, will present a 10 minute talk - “What’s coming in Jenkins”
- Agenda suggestions requested from board and from Jenkins officers
- Mark Waite is controller of ceremonies, will present a 10 minute talk - “What’s coming in Jenkins”
Action Items
- [name=Valentin Delaye] ask about JVM settings to infra team
- [name=Mark Waite] propose further definition of sponsorship tiers
- [name=Alex Earl] request transfer of Jenkins DNS ownership (jenkins.io and jenkins-ci.org) from R. Tyler Croy to the Linux Foundation
- Response from Tyler - Transfer to Alex, then transfer to Linux Foundation, still waiting to hear from Tyler
- [name=Alexander Brandes] reaches out to Jenkins GSoC team clarifying organization donations for 2025
- Contacted on 29.03., no response or acknowledgement yet
- [name=Alexander Brandes] proposed to revise our code of conduct to v3
- [name=Stefan Spieker] contacted the board asking for access to our LinkedIn and X channel for the advocacy and outreach officer.
- Common steps:
- Board votes on the request
- Ask on the mailing list for approval by the community
- If community and governance board voting suceed, governance board grants rights
- Common steps:
Community activity
- Windows MSI signing certificate expires May 16, 2026
- If we don’t renew the certificate, new Windows installs will need to override an ugly “untrusted installer” warning
- Signing changes implemented worldwide in 2023 complicate the renewal
- Help desk 4923 is tracking progress
- Discussion related to calendar versioning for Jenkins(https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/vA9da6BtvGI)
- Might need JEP for a more formal proposal
- Discussion has died down
- Dependency/Tooling updates
- Jackson 3.0 breaking changes from 2.0 (https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/8NBahPZMNA4)
- Spring v6 → v7 (https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/hH_pkGaAWrw)
- Released in Jenkins 2.556, no regressions reported
- Will release July 8, 2026 in LTS
- Maven 4 (https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/0JEzgNEIg6U)
Governance Topics
- AI “Slop”
- Update Governance Document with AI policies for contribution?
- Several folks have had a lot of PR’s that look like AI created
- Core had like 120 recently from new contributors
- Linux kernel now has an AI policy
- JFrog artifact reduction project (infra issue 4533) - Mark Waite
- In a holding pattern until JFrog determines what they want to do
- Plugin site search is blocked by overuse - help desk 5066
- May need to enable a Captcha on the plugins site to block LLM misuse
- Rotating who leads the meeting
- Alex Brandes - May 2026
- Alex Earl - Jun 2026
- Valentin Delaye - Jul 2026
- Daniel Krämer - Aug 2026