2023-02-06T18:00:00Z
February 6, 2023
Participants: Mark Waite, Basil Crow, Alexander Brandes, Ullrich Hafner, Oleg Nenashev
Agenda:
- News
- Jenkins 2.375.3 arriving Feb 8, 2023 - Alex Brandes is release lead
- Next LTS baseline will be 2.387.1, arriving March 8 - release lead not yet determined
- January 2023 newsletter preparation starting
- Action items
- Create and distribute election badges for 2022 elections - Mark Waite
- No progress, do the research
- Open badge hosted by the Linux Foundation (Oleg can guide Mark)
- EasyCLA to be documented by Oleg
- No progress, no requests pending
- Mark Waite create an empty agenda entry for the next meeting after each meeting
- Working well, continue doing it
- Mark Waite submit jenkins.io pull request to combine subprojects and SIGs into a single concept - “working groups”
- No progress, Mark to complete before next meeting
- Roadmap update pull requests, needs to be update
- Oleg Nenashev send proposal to Rick to retire the Chinese Jenkins site
- Sent proposal, no response received, send another reminder
- New year this week
- No activity in Jenkins from Rick in over 2 years
- Mark asked the same question to Rick
- Rick replied with the recommendation that we redirect the chinese pages to their English equivalents
- Based new bug reports arriving for outdated Chinese documentation, propose to shutdown the site
- Kevin Martens (Docs Officer) to raise a help desk ticket to replace the Chinese pages with redirects to the English pages
- Mark Waite and Gavin “halkeye” Mogan archive the governance meeting notes to a GitHub repository, use the Google doc as the working document, then publish final notes
- Gavin has prepared the archive, need a destination repository
- Infra team raised about the repository location as a question
- Oleg prefers jenkinsci rather than jenkins-infra for a governance repository
- Mark check the infra team preference, discuss if not jenkinsci
- Create and distribute election badges for 2022 elections - Mark Waite
- Jira license changes affect the Jenkins project on or before Feb 2024
- Discussion in developer mailing list
- Security team and others prefer to remain with Jira
- Mark Waite is in discussions with Chrissy from the Billing and Licensing team of Atlassian
- Likely need a donated Jira DataCenter license from Atlassian
- Other alternatives being discussed in the developer mailing list thread
- Google Summer of Code 2023
- Application due tomorrow
- Mark Waite intentionally not bringing Jenkins to She Code Africa Contributhon 2023
- Focus on GSoC 2023
- Community activity
- Jenkins project at FOSDEM
- Bruno Verachten, Herve LeMeur, Damien Duportal, Jean-Marc Meessen, Alexander Brandes, Oleg Nenashev, Olivier Vernin, Stéphane Merle, Stefan Spieker, several other friends, Carlos Sanchez, others?
- Booth was very active, busy with lots of interest in Jenkins
- Wide range of interests, including
- Long term users
- New users
- GSoC candidates
- Wide range of interests, including
- Alex attended other talks, enjoyed the community dinner Saturday evening
- Artifactory bandwidth reduction project in progress
- Identified several unnecessary contributors to bandwidth use, one consumer responded that issue is resolved, still seeking a contact on the machine in China that is repeatedly requesting the same WAR files (all the war files ever released) from repo.jenkins-ci.org
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Artifact caching proxy enabled last week on ci.jenkins.io to further reduce bandwidth use
- Plugin builds now, but other projects like bom will be in future
- Permission changes recommended by JFrog are under development
- Goal: first “brownout” test drive of the new permissions in mid Feb
- Behind schedule on that brownout test drive
- Announced in the future
- Mark contact Basil when new logs are available for analysis
- Jenkins project at FOSDEM