2024-04-29T18:00:00Z
29 Apr 2024
Attendees 
- @NotMyFault (Alexander Brandes)
- @uhafner (Ullrich Hafner)
- @basil (Basil Crow)
- @MarkEWaite (Mark Waite)
- Srikanth Jana
- Kevin Martens
- Mihir - Jenkins Toronto Meetup
Upcoming Calendar 
- Next weekly release: 2.456
- Next LTS: 2.452.1, May 15, 2024
- Alex Brandes as release lead
- Changelog and upgrade guide from Kevin Martens
- Next major events:
Agenda
News
- Jenkins has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2024, see Blog post from Alyssa Tong
- Google will announce the selected projects May 1, 2024
- Jenkins awards announced at cdCon Wednesday 17 Apr 2024. These awards recognize contributions from individuals in the community and the progress made in the name of Jenkins. Awarded candidates are:
- Most Valuable Jenkins Advocate:
- Darin Pope
- Most Valuable Jenkins Contributor:
- Stefan Spieker
- Jenkins Security MVP:
- Yaniv Nizry
- Most Valuable Jenkins Advocate:
Action Items
- Mark submit application for 2025 AWS open source credits program
- Done - copy provided to the Jenkins board mailing list
- June 2024 is the expected announcement date
- Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page
- Jenkins sponsors have changed
- Continues on the to-do list
- Draft PR is almost ready for review at: Add a Sponsors page by basil · Pull Request #6882 · jenkins-infra/jenkins.io · GitHub
- Kevin Martens retire the Chinese Jenkins site
- Mark needs to do more Kubernetes setup, then Kevin and Mark will meet with Damien
- More work pending
Community activity
- Contributor Spotlight this week: Mark Waite
- Next spotlight - Kevin Martens
Governance Topics
- Trademark request approval
- Trademark usage request for “Jenkins as a Service by CloudBees” - approved
- Four active board members approved
- Complies with Linux Foundation Trademark Guidelines as previously agreed
- Trademark usage request for “Jenkins as a Service by CloudBees” - approved
- Azure expense status
- Azure donation from Microsoft expires Aug 31, 2024
- Infrastructure team will accelerate their use of the Azure donation
- Reduce AWS and DigitalOcean expenses between now and Aug 31, 2024
- Increase AWS and DigitalOcean expenses after Aug 31, 2024 to offset end of Azure donation
- Special thanks to Damien, Herve, and Stephane for cost reductions
- AWS credits donation
- Credits have been received, work started to apply credits to Jenkins tasks
- AWS credit application for 2025
- Application has been submitted
- Spring Security 5.8.x end of public support
- Last public build of Spring security framework 5.8.x is August 2024
- Spring security 6.x requires Jetty 11 with Jakarta EE 9 (jakarta.servlet), not Jetty 10 with Jakarta EE 8 (javax.servlet)
- August 31, 2024 date seems likely to stick
- Last public build of Spring framework 5.3.x is August 2024
- Spring framework 6.1 and later require Java 17
- Alternatives:
- Accept that if there is a security vulnerability reported in Spring security 5.8.x between August 2024 and end Oct 2024, we may need to fork Spring Security and fix it ourselves
- Mark started discussion in the mailing list to find alternatives
- Last public build of Spring security framework 5.8.x is August 2024