# Governance Meeting, April 17, 2023

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**Created:** [May 19, 2023, 8:44pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/governance-meeting-april-17-2023/7499 "2023-05-19T20:44:31Z")\
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[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/2X/a/ae2429ff9c4ff17d50ee5c5ca40fb64d7eff6310.jpeg "Jenkins Governance Meeting April 17, 2023") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnUo6YIgqoU)

## April 17, 2023

Participants: Mark Waite, Ullrich Hafner, Daniel Beck

Agenda:

- News
  - Jenkins 2.387.2 released
  - [Prototype.js removal](https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-70906) has started
  - More than 50 Google Summer of Code proposals received - 3x more than last year
  - cdCon happening May 8-9, 2023 in Vancouver, Canada
    - Jenkins Awards will be announced there

- Action Items
  - EasyCLA to be documented by Oleg
    - No progress, no requests pending, pick it up if there are CLA submissions

  - Mark Waite submit [jenkins.io](http://jenkins.io) pull request to combine subprojects and SIGs into a single concept - “working groups”
    - Started with PR’s to retire inactive SIGs
      - [Cloud native](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/6296)
      - [Chinese localization](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/6297)
      - [Hardware and EDA](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/6298)
      - [Pipeline authoring](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/6299)

    - Roadmap update pull requests

  - Retire the Chinese Jenkins site
    - Chinese site link removed from [www.jenkins.io](http://www.jenkins.io) header
    - Rick recommends that we redirect the chinese pages to English equivalents
    - Kevin Martens (Docs Officer) tracking [help desk ticket](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/3379) to replace the Chinese pages with redirects to the English pages
      - Need a redirect from [Jenkins](https://www.jenkins.io/zh/) to [https://www.jenkins.io/](https://www.jenkins.io/zh/)

  - Mark Waite archive the governance meeting notes to a GitHub repository, use the Google doc as the working document, then publish final notes
    - Gavin has prepared the archive, need a destination repository
    - See the [infra help desk ticket](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/3271) tracking the discussion
    - Infra team raised about the repository location as a question
    - Oleg prefers jenkinsci rather than jenkins-infra for a governance repository (this is not about the archive repository!)
      - Mark check the infra team preference, discuss if not jenkinsci
      - Accept that we’ll place them in jenkins-infra as recommended in the help desk ticket

  - Mark Waite schedule retrospective on signing certificate renewal process and its improvements
    - Code signing certificate for MSI and WAR files
    - PGP signing key for RPM and DEB files

  - Mark Waite complete the reimbursement process for code signing certificate

- Budget and expenses
  - Mark Waite spent $1536.00 USD for the Digicert code signing certificate and wants to be reimbursed
    - Receipt is in the [board mailing list](https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-board/c/v7koGRlJOXY/m/zIDTTLEeBAAJ) along with a request for board approval of the reimbursement
    - [Current account balance](https://crowdfunding.lfx.linuxfoundation.org/projects/jenkins) is $10337, enough funds to cover the $1536 expense
      - Ulli approves the expense (also in the mailing list)

    - How to request reimbursement?
    - Mark sent request to Fatih Digermenci of CDF and accounts payable at Linux Foundation for more guidance

  - Wadeck Follonier has been approved for $52.99 expense but not yet reimbursed

- CDF topics
  - LFX insights working group met earlier today to discuss LFX metrics used by the Jenkins project
    - Discussions in the [CDF working group repository](https://github.com/cdfoundation/wg-lfx-requirements/discussions)
      - Detailed list of reports used by Mark Waite are in the [DevStats thread](https://github.com/cdfoundation/wg-lfx-requirements/discussions/10)