Governance Meeting - Mar 9, 2022

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2022-03-09T21:00:00Z

Participants

Mark Waite (@MarkEWaite), Gavin Mogan (@halkeye), Oleg Nenashev ( @oleg-nenashev ), Shanmukh

Notes

  • News
    • Jenkins 2.338 released with several icon and image fixes
    • Jenkins LTS 2.332.1 released March 9, 2022
    • GSoC 2022 application accepted, office hours weekly, webinar was today
      • 5 prior GSoC students as mentors
      • 5 additional mentors
      • More mentors volunteering
      • Seeking more mentors and more project ideas
  • Press contact email alias - Gavin Mogan
    • Investigation and notes are complete
      • No progress since last time
    • Discourse trials in email routing as a community.jenkins.io service
    • Next steps
      • Email the dev list to seek volunteers as press contacts
        • Very low volume email (4 in 12 months)
      • Experiments ongoing, discuss in infra meeting and in mail
  • Ukraine invasion by Russia and the Jenkins project
    • CDF has placed a statement on their site
      • We stand with the people of Ukraine. Please assist humanitarian efforts for the Ukrainian people and those affected by the military invasion of Ukraine by supporting international aid organizations, including the International Committee of the Red Cross.
      • Discussed in the governing board of CDF
      • We can do the same in the Jenkins developer mailing list
      • Support contributors
      • Could consider a modified logo to show solidarity with Ukraine
        • Idea or example posted in Advocacy & Outreach
      • Public discussion important in this context
        • Alignment would only be to prepare for public discussion
        • Let’s just make the message in public
      • Loss of freedom in Belarus and Russia is also part of the message
        • Oleg willing to attempt a message later this week
    • Oleg considering that it should move to the developer mailing list
      • Must be explicit that we expect all conversations to comply with the code of conduct
    • Discussion started because we received a request to ban Russians and Russian IP addresses from the Jenkins project
      • Governance board members +1 to NOT ban Russians or Russian IP addresses (Mark Waite, Oleg Nenashev, Gavin Mogan, Kohsuke K)
  • CDF Community Awards nominations are now open
    • See CDF Community Awards - CD Foundation
    • Needs a blog post (Mark Waite) and placement on Jenkins Jumbotron
      • OK to promote as we did last year
      • Public nominations allows people to highlight contributions
  • cdCon 2022 and Jenkins Contributor Summit - Austin, TX, USA June 7-8, 2022
    • Needs placement on Jenkins Jumbotron
      • Place cdCon on the Jumbotron (immediate) (+1 from all)
        • Make a single entry for both cdCon and Contributor Summit
      • Don’t forget that carousel effectiveness decreases entry count increases
    • On-site event
    • Oleg won’t be at cdCon (visa unlikely)
      • Pending application for a Jenkins 2022 and beyond at cdCon by Oleg
        • Discussed with CDF team, but would want a backup speaker
          • Consider Mark Waite or Mark and Alyssa
  • Jenkins is the Way replacement site
    • Infra team agrees with Netlify for jenkinsistheway.jenkins.io
    • Scaffolding is ready
      • Using Gatsby just like the plugins site
      • Interested to try MDX (Markdown with components)
    • Next steps?
      • Gavin continue his progress
  • Forums and topics
    • New font and logotype from Basil Crow
      • See the conversation in the mailing list
    • DigitalOcean k8s cluster is running
    • Versions follow-up (later meeting)