Governance Meeting, February 6, 2023

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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      • Based new bug reports arriving for outdated Chinese documentation, propose to shutdown the site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
  • 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
      • 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
      • 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