2024-02-19T19:00:00Z
19 Feb 2024
Attendees 
- @MarkEWaite (Mark Waite)
- @NotMyFault (Alexander Brandes)
- @uhafner (Ullrich Hafner)
- @gounthar (Bruno Verachten)
Upcoming Calendar 
- Next weekly release: 2.446
- Next LTS: 2.440.1, February 21, 2024 - release checklist
- Next major events:
- Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 20x) March 14-17, 2024
- Pasadena Convention Center in Pasadena, CA, USA
- Jenkins project will have a booth at the conference
- Alyssa Tong, Mark Waite, and Basil Crow plan to attend
- cdCon 2024 April 16-18, 2024
- Co-located with Open Source Summit North America in Seattle, WA, USA
- Mark Waite plans to attend
- Southern California Linux Expo (SCaLE 20x) March 14-17, 2024
Agenda
News
- Ampere Computing has lent 2 servers to the Jenkins project
- Special thanks
- Bruno Verachten arranged the loan to the Jenkins project
- Aaron Williams arranged the loan from Ampere Computing
- Mark Waite is hosting the machines at his house (donating electricity and networking)
- CloudBees will be asked to donate disc drives and other components as needed
- Next generation of the Jenkins project involvement with ARM64
- Oracle Cloud confirmed in 2021 that Jenkins works well with ARM64
- Jenkins infrastructure continues transition to ARM64 servers
- Special thanks
Action Items
- Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page
- Jenkins sponsors have changed
- DigitalOcean donated over $20k USD last year and has donated $20k in 2024
- AWS donation request has been submitted. Answer in 30 days. If no donation, then should remove AWS from root page
- Jenkins sponsors have changed
- Kevin Martens retire the Chinese Jenkins site
- Mark needs to do more Kubernetes setup, then Kevin and Mark will meet with Damien
- More work after FOSDEM
- Stefan Spieker to join the core-pr-reviewer team: https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/Wkhrs3nNEEU @NotMyFault
- Per the maintainer’s doc, the board can vote on the decision: jenkins/docs/MAINTAINERS.adoc at 5304da10a6f24088a56c4a00e1d3c7058c7b63fa · jenkinsci/jenkins · GitHub
- @NotMyFault is in favor, he has been a great help reviewing core PRs and contributing to core before
- @MarkEWaite is in favor
- @basil is in favor
- @uhafner is in favor
- @NotMyFault add him to the correct GitHub team
Community activity
- Contributor summit results
- Slides from the summit
- @kmartens27 preparing a summary blog post
- @MarkEWaite extend the Java 2+2+2 support plan JEP with results from summit
- Java 11, 17, and 21 in Jenkins - Mark Waite
- Contributor summit provided additional information
- HPI plugin has been extended to prepare for Java 11 end of life - PR-578 from Vincent Latombe
- HPI plugin not yet released with the change
- HPI plugin has been extended to prepare for Java 11 end of life - PR-578 from Vincent Latombe
- 2+2+2 Java support plan - Jenkins enhancement proposal submitted
- Include the steps of the Java migration as part of the JEP (work estimate, tasks, etc.)
- Mark has much more work to do here
- Dropping support for a Java version (refer to Java 11 for ideas)
- Adding a Java version (use Java 21 addition as the pattern)
- Making a Java version the recommended version (use Java 17 as the pattern)
- Further refinements to be done in the JEP
- Mark has much more work to do here
- Include the steps of the Java migration as part of the JEP (work estimate, tasks, etc.)
- Key dates
- Oct 2, 2024 - Last Jenkins LTS release to support Java 11
- Oct 30, 2024 - First Jenkins LTS to require Java 17
- Oct 31, 2024 - end of Java 11 support by Jenkins project
- Contributor summit provided additional information
Governance Topics
- Jenkins awards - Mark Waite
- Nominations close today, 19 Feb 2024
- Overview of the Jenkins awards
- CDF hosts the nominations
- Most valuable advocate - speaking, promoting, training, tutoring
- Most valuable contributor - features, fixes, and more
- Security MVP - security reports and fixes for security issues
- Nomination process for Jenkins awards
- Nomination through GitHub issues
- Most valuable advocate
- 1 nomination currently
- Most valuable contributor
- 2 nominations currently
- Security MVP
- 2 nominations currently
- Most valuable advocate
- Nomination through GitHub issues
- Voting process for Jenkins awards
- 2023 winners are not eligible for 2024
- Announcement of Jenkins awards
- Announced at cdCon in April, Seattle
- Publicize on the Jenkins web site as well - blog, LinkedIn, Tweet, etc.
- Attribution request for downloads page from JFrog
- Basil has submitted a draft pull request for a sponsors page
- Proposes multiple levels
- Original proposal
- Anchor
- Premier
- Partner
- Supporter
- Associate
- Mirror
- Alternate proposal (Olympic medals + 2 extra)
- Anchor
- Gold
- Silver
- Bronze
- Mirror
- Original proposal
- Proposes multiple levels
- Links from the downloads page do not use https://repo.jenkins-ci.org
- Good to highlight our sponsors (like JFrog) in multiple ways
- Proposed to list sponsors at the end of the downloads page similar to the end of the root page
- Include links to a description of the architecture used to distribute Jenkins core and Jenkins plugins
- Basil has submitted a draft pull request for a sponsors page
- Azure expense status
- January expenses were $6820
- last week of January showed very good cost reduction
- February expenses predicted less than $5000
- Reductions from last week of January are continuing
- January expenses were $6820
- AWS credits donation request - Mark Waite
- Credits have been received, not yet applying the credits to Jenkins tasks
- Credits will be used with the same pattern as we use with Azure credits
- Use a new account to host the credits
- Move specific tasks from existing account to new account to consume the credits
- Mark unavailable for next governance meeting - 4 Mar 2024
- Need a volunteer to create the agenda and run the meeting
- @uhafner will run the meeting
- Need a volunteer to create the agenda and run the meeting