Governance Meeting, February 10, 2025

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2025-02-10T17:30:00Z

10 Feb 2025

Attendees :busts_in_silhouette:

Upcoming Calendar :calendar:

  • Next weekly release: 2.497, Tuesday February 12, 2025
  • Next LTS: 2.492.2 - March 5, 2025 - Kris Stern is release lead
    • Release candidate February 19, 2025
  • Next major events:
    • Southern California Linux Expo - Pasadena, CA, USA - March 6-9, 2025
    • Linux Foundation Member Summit - Napa, CA, USA - March 18-20, 2025
    • cdCon and Open Source Summit North America - Denver, CO, USA - June 23-25, 2025

Agenda

News

Action Items

  • Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page
  • Mark Waite submit Jenkins Contributor Summit summary blog post
  • Mark Waite track reimbursements of all SPI funded attendees at Jenkins Contributor Summit
    • 7 of 8 reimbursements submitted and approved for payment. Payment expected in 2 weeks
  • Mark Waite propose further definition of sponsorship tiers
  • Mark Waite complete reimbursement process for Alex Brandes travel to GSoC Mentor Summit
  • Mark Waite confirm with Damien Duportal that the jenkins.io domain continues
    • ICANN blog post says no change is pending and if a change happens, it will have at least 5 years to implement
  • Mark Waite include Jim Klimov in the SPI funded attendees (invitation sent)

Community activity

  • Summary of Contributor Summit
    • Mark Waite preparing a blog post summary
      • Agenda was very busy, completed the goals, and had good working sessions
      • Blog post draft from Stefan Spieker on the community plugin maintainer inititative
      • Breakout sessions were a great idea, allow people to join the area of interest
        • Maintenance
        • UX SIG
        • Jenkins 3
      • Good to hear ideas of what people wanted to work on next
        • Better search (backend and frontend) - how to channel that interest into code
        • We’re good at small changes, but larger changes are much slower
        • Lots of motivation, even on larger projects, but need to find ways to channel the interest into results in a reasonable amount of time
        • Lots of motivation
    • Mark Waite using blog post summary as Jenkins project summary to CDF Technical Oversight Committee
    • Community plugin maintainers proposal for discussion in Jenkins developer mailing list
      • Java 25 is another project coming that will sweep across all the plugins
      • Jakarta EE 9 sweep has been much more smooth than the last sweep a year ago
        • Did not have to battle with outdated sources in top 250 plugins
  • Jenkins Content Security Policy project part 2
    • Project proposal submitted to Michael Winser of Alpha Omega
      • Yaroslav Afenkin as project lead and lead implementer
      • Shlomo Dahan as an implementer
      • Bruno Verachten as project manager
      • Jenkins security team as consultants in case of questions
    • Project approval seems unlikely

Governance Topics

  • JFrog artifact storage reduction project (email message)
    • JFrog sponsorship allows not more than 5 TB storage, we’re over 10 TB storage
    • Darin Pope leading project to reduce our storage use and our bandwidth use
      • Remove outdated artifacts from incrementals (saved 1 TB)
      • Stop serving full content of other cached repositories (like Atlassian public cache)
      • Other reductions as necessary
    • Refer to 2023 summary of previous bandwidth reduction project
  • Sponsor tiers approved - Platinum, Gold, Silver, Bronze, and Mirror
    • Tiers and their thresholds
      • Platinum - over $250k value and/or cash contributed to project
      • Gold - $15k to $250k value and/or cash contributed to the project
      • Silver - $5k to $15k value and/or cash contributed to the project
      • Bronze - less than $5k value and/or cash contributed to the project
      • Mirror - Jenkins mirror provider for software delivery
    • 2024 recap blog post
  • Contributor Summit travel funding
    • Funded 8 travelers - reimbursement requests received and approved from 7 of 8
      • Tim Jacomb
      • Jan Faracik
      • Alexander Brandes
      • Valentin Delaye
      • Stefan Spieker
      • Daniel Kramer
      • Thorsten Scherler
      • Jim Klimov
  • Cloud expenses and plans
    • Azure (CDF paid)
      • August: $4.5k
      • September: $3.9k
      • October: $4.2k
      • November: $4.3k
      • December: $4.4k
      • January: $4.3k
    • Azure Sponsorship (Microsoft Credits) - $41k remaining, donation ends May 2025
      • August: $10.5k
      • September: $10.3k
      • October: $12.9k
      • November: $13k
      • December: $9.5k
      • January:
    • DigitalOcean - Remaining $15k (~5k consumed) until 02 January 2025
      • August $200
      • September: $158
      • October: $196
      • November: $146
      • December: $192
      • January: < $200
    • AWS:
      • CloudBees:
        • August: $6.3k
        • September: $6.3k
        • October: $6.4k
        • November: $3.9k
        • December: $540
        • January: < $600
      • Sponsored account
        • October: $178
        • November: $482
        • December: $600
        • January: < $2000
        • Moving ci.jenkins.io to AWS sponsored account
          • Likely $10k per month Feb 2025 - Jul 2025
  • Increasing diversity in Jenkins leadership - Alex Earl
    • Looking at the video view, we have a single demographic on the board
      • We have people from multiple locations
      • Other viewpoints would be good to include in our community of volunteers
      • Outreach as a way to connect with a broader set of people
        • One of our board candidates Kris Stern is a good example
        • Want a larger reach to include more opinions and more initiative
      • Continue discussion on the board mailing list