Governance Meeting, December 8, 2025

8 Dec 2025

Attendees :busts_in_silhouette:

Upcoming Calendar :tear_off_calendar:

  • Next weekly release: 2.541 Wednesday December 10, 2025 - security release
  • Next LTS: 2.528.3
  • Contributor summit Jan 30, 2026

Agenda

News

  • Jenkins Election 2025 has finished
    • Alex Earl leading the elections committee, following the election process
      • Alex will create a blog post to announce the results
      • Alex will prepare a retrospective for discussion with the board
    • Onboarding and training the new members
      • Daniel Krämer - Board
      • Kris Stern - Docs - Mark and Kevin will train (shadow Kevin)
      • Stefan Spieker - Events (needs time with Alyssa and Bruno, Advocacy meeting)
    • Registered voters are in the election voter 2025 group
      • 69 registered voters
    • New board members:
      • Basil Crow
      • Daniel Krämer
    • New officers:
      • Documentation - Kris Stern
      • Events - Stefan Spieker
      • Release - Tim Jacomb
      • Infrastructure - Damien Duportal
      • Security - Wadeck Follonier
  • Jenkins Bug Bounty

Action Items

  • Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page
  • Mark Waite propose further definition of sponsorship tiers
  • Alex Earl request transfer of Jenkins DNS ownership (jenkins.io and jenkins-ci.org) from R. Tyler Croy to the Linux Foundation

Community activity

  • Jira to GitHub transition for Jenkins core components
  • Java 25 support
    • Jenkins core 2.534 supports Java 25
    • 90% of top 250 non-deprecated Jenkins plugins are already testing with Java 25
    • What is the timeline for support?
      • Java 25 supported in Jenkins weekly October 28, 2025
      • Java 25 supported in Jenkins LTS January 21, 2026
      • No timeline set for plugins, though we’d love to see 90% of the most popular 250 plugins testing with Java 25 by January 7, 2026

Governance Topics

  • Jenkins Contributor Summit 2026 - Mark Waite
    • 30 Jan 2026
    • Table confirmed at FOSDEM, need volunteers to staff the table
    • Alyssa Tong has confirmed the venue with Beta Cowork - $250 fee to reserve the room
      • Expense approved by the Board
    • Using spreadsheet to prioritize attendees and their reimbursements
      • Spreadsheet with proposed attendees
      • Board members prioritized the attendees
      • Reimbursements from the Jenkins CrowdFunding site, payment approval by board, payment processing by Alex Brandes
    • Funding travel (~16000$ for 15 people)
  • JFrog artifact reduction project (infra issue 4533) - Mark Waite
    • OpenSSF Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship
      • Continuous Delivery Foundation is a signatory of the joint statement
    • Darin Pope keeps our storage less then 2 TB
    • Bandwidth reductions are still needed
    • Some progress with high volume consumers
      • AWS abuse report is progressing slowly on the top 3 consumers
    • Jenkins project use has further reduced bandwidth use
      • Still areas to improve (weekly generation of extensions list)
    • JFrog sponsorship allows not more than 10 TB monthly bandwidth, we are now at 15-20 TB monthly
      • Bandwidth results
        • September: 19 TB
        • October: 17 TB
        • November: 16 TB
      • JFrog billing logs analyzed daily by Darin Pope scripts
        • Mark Waite reviews logs occasionally, seeks consumers we can reduce
      • Reductions will not be enough to drop below the JFrog 10 TB per month threshold
        • Something more significant will be required
          • Require authentication?
          • Limit bandwidth over a time period?
          • Other alternatives?
          • Self-host an instance?
        • Infrastructure changes are expected
      • Limited responses from a few companies
        • Likely will block IP addresses of largest consumers for 2 days
          • Identify remaining large scale consumers by refusing them for 2 days
          • More conversations with those large scale consumers
      • Have done some work on our side to reduce the usage on our agents
        • Usage has gone down 20-30% since the work started
      • Currently don’t see a path getting down that low with organic improvements
        • Still an ongoing conversation with JFrog
        • Next steps are to do some brown outs and block some IP addresses to see who complains
        • This will allow us to find out who the top users are and communicate with them to reduce their usage
      • In a holding pattern to determine next steps
        • Waiting on JFrog for some feedback on what they want to do next
  • Cloud expenses and plans
    • Current situation (see recent notes from Infrastructure Meeting)
      • Meeting lead review infra notes to assure we are not exceeding budget
  • CDF Membership Sales - Mark Waite
    • Linux Foundation sales team has agreed to include CDF in their sales process
    • Blog posted 9 Sep 2025
      • Video panel with
        • Gerard McMahon
        • Dadisi Sanyika
        • Melissa McKay
        • Mark Waite
        • Lori Lorusso
    • Jenkins project needs CDF to continue strong and growing
    • Encourage companies to become CDF members
      • Must be a Linux Foundation member in order to be a CDF member
  • Rotating who leads the meeting
    • Alex Brandes - Dec 2025
    • Alex Earl - Jan 2026
    • Valentin Delaye - Feb 2026
    • Basil Crow - Mar 2026
    • Daniel Krämer - Apr 2026
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