# Governance Meeting, February 10, 2025

**URL:** https://community.jenkins.io/t/governance-meeting-february-10-2025/26821
**Category:** Community
**Tags:** meeting, governance
**Created:** [February 11, 2025, 1:39am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/governance-meeting-february-10-2025/26821 "2025-02-11T01:39:05Z")
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### 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)
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[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/2X/0/05cb92a45e134c23d5b236466def5c4072d27bce.jpeg "Jenkins Governance Meeting February 10, 2025") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFCXV2tviC4)

# 10 Feb 2025

## Attendees 👥

- @MarkEWaite (Mark Waite)
- @poddingue (Bruno Verachten)
- @NotMyFault (Alexander Brandes)
- @basil (Basil Crow)
- @slide_o_mix (Alex Earl)
- @kmartens27 (Kevin Martens)
- @oleg-nenashev Oleg Nenashev
- Salman Jana

## Upcoming 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

- Jenkins wins DevOps Dozen award - most innovative open source project
  - DevOps Dozen [announcement](https://devopsdozen.com/devops-dozen-2024-community-award-winners/)
  - Jenkins 2024 [recap blog post](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2025/01/16/jenkins-2024-recap/)

### 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 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](http://jenkins.io) domain continues
  - [ICANN blog post](https://www.icann.org/en/blogs/details/the-chagos-archipelago-and-the-io-domain-14-11-2024-en) 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](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GEI7tQp3UxGCbQQyF1JdujgwkoWcMluvUMFanV2nDGo/edit?usp=sharing) 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](https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/6_X0ABdLAgE/m/3XwzSn1xEAAJ))
  - 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](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2023/09/06/artifactory-bandwidth-reduction/)

- 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](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2025/01/16/jenkins-2024-recap/)

- 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](http://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