Governance Meeting - August 8, 2022

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2022-08-08T17:00:00Z

Participants: Mark Waite, Basil Crow, Kevin Martens, Gavin Mogan, Oleg Nenashev, Bruno Verachten

Agenda

  • News
  • Action items
    • Mark Waite to create blog post of She Code Africa Contributhon results
      • Done
    • Mark Waite to find and finish Linux Foundation transfers from GSoC 2021
      • No progress, change in LF staffing, new contact to be provided by Fatih
      • Money is believed to be still in the account
      • Funds also at SPI - Oleg investigating the disposition of those funds
    • Mark Waite to use community.jenkins.io for the Jenkins Docs SIG mailing list
      • Announce the change and make the existing list read-only
      • Gavin investigated importing a mailing list, export is easy, import requires that we ask for help from the Discourse, complicated set of steps
        • Not worth the effort
    • Mark Waite to create blog post summary of the Contributor Summit at cdCon
    • Mark Waite request full access to the CDF Zoom account for Jenkins
      • Assure that we can add new users to the Zoom account
    • Mark or Gavin update the Algolia search configuration for www.jenkins.io
      • Tracked as a help desk ticket
      • We’re using their “Docs Search” facility
  • Blue ocean admonition for user handbook and tutorials - Mark Waite
  • CDF topics
    • Request for a highlights blog post on the 2.361.1
      • Docs SIG will provide a highlights blog post for CDF
      • End of August and early September will be busy for Roxanne Joncas
    • CDF TOC & TOC Chair Elections
      • Officially extended terms of project representatives to 2 years
      • Oleg will remain Jenkins representative for another year
      • TOC chair election - Oleg remains for another year
      • Represents Jenkins on the governance board
      • Mark to connect with the CloudBees representative to make the change
      • CDF Mini-Summit on September 12th in Dublin
    • Project Pyrsia is now an incubating project
      • Distributed package repository (JFrog, DeployHub, Canonical, Docker, …)
    • Status of Bevy
      • Pause the Bevy migration action item, second thoughts on adoption
        • Low tier payment plan that blocks many of the functions that we need
        • Does not make sense to transition
  • Status of EasyCLA
  • Jenkins.io web site - Gavin Mogan
    • Some debate in the community over the new look
      • Gavin has some preference to revert
      • Mark has some preferences to revert, though not super strong preference
      • If the issues were fixed in a day or two, would have preferred to push forward
      • Better to rollback, then apply step-wise improvements?
    • Mark will revert and we’ll attempt a series of small changes
  • Google Summer of Code
    • In progress, all 4 projects are progressing, mid-term presentation
  • Forums and community topics - Gavin Mogan