# Governance Meeting, January 8, 2024

**URL:** <https://community.jenkins.io/t/governance-meeting-january-8-2024/11955>\
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**Created:** [January 23, 2024, 4:41am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/governance-meeting-january-8-2024/11955 "2024-01-23T04:41:08Z")\
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[![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/2X/c/c2687a6280fa733912ac918c470f97848d29c0ff.jpeg "Jenkins Governance Meeting Jan 8, 2024") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w2DCmEyPgA8)

# 8 Jan 2024

## Attendees 👥

- @MarkEWaite (Mark Waite)
- @basil (Basil Crow)
- @NotMyFault (Alexander Brandes)
- @uhafner (Ullrich Hafner)
- @gounthar (Bruno Verachten)
- @kmartens27 (Kevin Martens)

## Upcoming Calendar 📆

- Next weekly release: 2.440
- Next LTS: 2.426.3, January 24, 2024
- Next LTS baseline: Wednesday January 10, 2024
- Next major events:  
by CloudBees)
  - [FOSDEM 2024](https://fosdem.org/2024/) - February 3-4, 2024
    - Jenkins Contributor Summit Friday February 2, 2024
      - Agenda topics in [community forum](https://community.jenkins.io/t/jenkins-contributor-summit-on-feb-2-2024-call-for-topics-and-ideas/10689)  
FOSDEM conference Saturday and Sunday February 3-4, 2024

## Agenda

### News

- Microsoft Azure donation of $40,000 USD is being used for 2024
- DigitalOcean sponsors Jenkins project with $20,000 USB cloud services donation for 2024

### Action Items

- Licensing policy and phrasing changes - **done**
  - Allow public domain licenses explicitly - allow JSON library
  - What license should be used for a library plugin
    - Soft recommendation has been merged to Jenkins plugin publishing documentation
    - If wrapper contains significant code, then MIT license
    - If wrapper does not contain significant code, then use license of wrapper library
    - Recent plugins have aligned licenses with the recommendation

- Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page
  - Jenkins sponsors have changed
    - Red Hat is no longer a member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation. Remove from the root page?
    - 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](https://www.jenkins.io/)

- Mark Waite submit [jenkins.io](http://jenkins.io) pull request to combine subprojects and SIGs
  - Remove from action items

- 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

### Community activity

- Artifactory bandwidth reduction project - Mark Waite

- Contributor Summit Feb 2, 2024 in Brussels

- Java 11, 17, and 21 in Jenkins - Mark Waite

### Governance Topics

- Defaced issue reports - help desk 3851

- [Attribution request](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/issues/6861) for downloads page from JFrog

- Azure credits donation - Mark Waite

- AWS credits donation request - Mark Waite

- Contributor spotlight for Ulli Hafner being published tomorrow