Governance Meeting - June 1, 2022

[MarkEWaite (Mark Waite)]

2022-06-01T20:00:00Z

Jenkins Governance Meeting June 1, 2022

June 1, 2022

Recording:

Participants: Basil, Gavin

Agenda:

• News
  • 2.346.1 LTS
    • Release of 2.346.1 has been delayed by a few weeks to offer more time to address regressions and other issues (developer list)
    • Several more LTS candidates are available for backport, Jira query: resolution = Fixed AND labels = lts-candidate and labels not in (2.346.1-fixed)
      • Alexander Brandes using the additional time to start a secondary backporting process to integrate the new LTS candidates
    • Changelog and upgrade guide being updated to describe SVG icon migration
      • Many thanks to Kevin Martens for leading this effort
  • Weekly
    • Improvements to Docker images, need changelog entries
      • Removing unused packages
      • Adding additional Debian and Alpine based Docker images
      • Code cleanups
    • Multiple UI regression fixes in flight
      • Thanks to all contributors who have developed, reviewed, or tested regression fixes
    • Ant class loader disabled by default
      • Finishes a months-long effort begun in 2021 to pay down technical debt
    • Guice update stalled (non-trivial test failures)
      • Needs volunteer to investigate and get us over this flag day
        • Figuring out the context from the really code without a lot of help
        • Running PR builds (either locally or PR tester)
      • Do not want to fall behind as we did with Guava
  • Infra had a couple outages last week
    • Status.jenkins.io needs more visibility.
      • Don’t know how, but we should
    • Updates.jenkins.io had issues with certs and stuff
    • pkg.jenkins.io/mirrors.jenkins.io got moved to new server
• Projects
  • [JENKINS-67688] Java 11 Phase 5: Require Java 11 or newer
    • On track for delivery in June 21, 2022 weekly (September LTS)
    • Plan to take Java 17 out of preview mode in the same release
    • Blocker JENKINS-63766 worked around in Pipeline: Groovy and Script Security
    • Needs additional core change (LTS candidate)
    • Upstream fixes accepted in OpenJDK 11 Updates project
    • Reminder to end users, if using package managers, upgrade package managers not .war files directly
  • [JENKINS-68446] Java 11/JAXB compatibility: Long tail
    • Notification plugin needs release (JENKINS-55955 / jenkinsci/notification-plugin#46)
    • SLOCCount plugin needs adoption, merge, and release (jenkins-infra/repository-permissions-updater#2553 / JENKINS-68514 / jenkinsci/sloccount-plugin#62)
    • Maintainers working on HPE ALI plugin fixes toward version 7.4, which will be in the end of June (JENKINS-68498)
    • All other unresolved issues affect plugins with < 500 installations; planned for deprecation
• She Code Africa Contributhon
  • Completed, see reports on community.jenkins.io
    • Gavin to add links for
  • Needs a blog post by Mark Waite
• Google Summer of Code
  • Projects selected
    • Plugin Health Scoring System (Dheeraj Singh Jodha)
    • Jenkinsfile Runner Action for GitHub Actions (Yiming Gong)
    • Automatic git cache maintenance on the controller (Hrushikesh Rao)
    • Pipeline Step Documentation Generator Improvements (Vihaan Thora)
• Forums and community topics
  • Callout for youtube videos, blog posts, etc for general learnings - Help me to find good learning path for beginner - #2 by poddingue