# Governance Meeting, December 8, 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Community\ **Tags:** meeting, governance\ **Created:** [December 8, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/governance-meeting-december-8-2025/35919 "2025-12-08T20:28:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MarkEWaite](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/markewaite/32/20_2.png) [@MarkEWaite](https://community.jenkins.io/u/MarkEWaite)\ **Post date:** [December 8, 2025, 8:28pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/governance-meeting-december-8-2025/35919/1 "2025-12-08T20:28:06Z")
[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/3X/8/8/883a1d0c4d7ec6ebbabb06cc7691321f6be3d65f.jpeg "Jenkins Governance Meeting December 8, 2025") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssk2cV01XIA) # 8 Dec 2025 ## Attendees 👥 - @slide_o_mix (Alex Earl) - @strangelookingnerd (Daniel Krämer) - @MarkEWaite (Mark Waite) ## Upcoming Calendar 📆 - Next weekly release: 2.541 Wednesday December 10, 2025 - security release - Next LTS: 2.528.3 - Kris Stern is release lead using the [release checklist](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/release/issues/772) - Kris is mentoring Shalini Sudarsan as a release lead - Release Wednesday December 10, 2025 - security release - [Changelog and upgrade guide](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/8577) created by Kevin Martens - Contributor summit Jan 30, 2026 ## Agenda ### News - [Jenkins Election 2025](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2025/08/08/board-officer-election-announcement/) 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](https://community.jenkins.io/g/election-voter-2025) - 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](https://yeswehack.com/programs/jenkins-bug-bounty-program) - [LinkedIn announcement](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7403697867586179073/) - A blog post is coming soon ### Action Items - Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page - Continues on the to-do list [draft PR](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/6882) - Mark Waite propose further definition of sponsorship tiers - Alex Earl request transfer of Jenkins DNS ownership ([jenkins.io](http://jenkins.io) and [jenkins-ci.org](http://jenkins-ci.org)) from R. Tyler Croy to the Linux Foundation ### Community activity - Jira to GitHub transition for Jenkins core components - Tim Jacomb migrated Jenkins core issues to GitHub as described to the [Jenkins developer mailing list](https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/GUFCfBM1j_4/m/z6QzE6XGAQAJ) - More details are in [Jenkins Enhancement Proposal 238](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jep/tree/master/jep/238) - Issues for many plugins are also migrating to GitHub issues - [Repository permissions updater pull requests](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/repository-permissions-updater/pulls?q=is%3Apr+Migrate+plugin+issues+to+GitHub) show the progress - Java 25 support - [Jenkins core 2.534](https://www.jenkins.io/changelog/2.534/) supports Java 25 - 90% of top 250 non-deprecated Jenkins plugins are already testing with Java 25 - [6 pull requests](https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+author%3AMarkEWaite+archived%3Afalse+Test+with+Java+25) in progress to test more plugins 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 - $250 fee to reserve the room - Expense approved by the Board - Using spreadsheet to prioritize attendees and their reimbursements - [Spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F1z4iirZVSCagE0d6JZ5wbZ8Iz0uSHBmkjjExlsg6OI/edit?usp=sharing) with proposed attendees - Board members prioritized the attendees - Reimbursements from the Jenkins CrowdFunding site, payment approval by board, payment processing by Alex Brandes - Funding travel (~16000$ for 15 people) - JFrog artifact reduction project ([infra issue 4533](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/4533)) - Mark Waite - OpenSSF [Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship](https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-a-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](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/documentation/blob/9aacae2ee3e80e5b26b70a7adfd3008c5ec8428f/meetings/2025-11-04.md#cloud-budgets)) - 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](https://cd.foundation/blog/2025/10/09/why-be-open-source-member/) posted 9 Sep 2025 - [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7h6nBhRKpk) 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