2024-03-18T19:00:00Z
18 Mar 2024
Attendees 
- @NotMyFault (Alexander Brandes)
- @gounthar (Bruno Verachten)
- @basil (Basil Crow)
- @MarkEWaite (Mark Waite)
Upcoming Calendar 
- Next weekly release: 2.450
- Next LTS: 2.440.2, March 20, 2024
- RC is ready to be tested
- Jakarta Mail changes that might break some things (release notes show details)
- Next major events:
- cdCon 2024 April 16-18, 2024
- Co-located with Open Source Summit North America in Seattle, WA, USA
- Mark Waite will attend
- cdCon 2024 April 16-18, 2024
Agenda
News
- Jenkins has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2024, see Blog post from Alyssa Tong
- Proposols to be sent by end of March
- Jenkins award voting is in progress. These awards recognize contributions from individuals in the community and the progress made in the name of Jenkins. Nominated candidates are:
- Most Valuable Jenkins Advocate:
- Alexander Brandes
- Bruno Verachten
- Darin Pope
- Kris Stern
- Most Valuable Jenkins Contributor:
- Basil Crow
- Daniel Beck
- Kris Stern
- Stefan Spieker
- Tim Jacomb
- Ullrich Hafner
- Jenkins Security MVP:
- Alvaro Muñoz
- Yaniv Nizry
- Voting is possible until March 22, 2024
- Most Valuable Jenkins Advocate:
Action Items
- Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page
- Jenkins sponsors have changed
- Continues on the to-do list
- Draft PR is almost ready for review at: Add a Sponsors page by basil · Pull Request #6882 · jenkins-infra/jenkins.io · GitHub
- 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 Kevin returns from holiday
Community activity
- GSoC preparation: A lot of traffic in the community forums, chat rooms, and GitHub repositories
- Contributer Spotlight this week: Bruno Verachten
Governance Topics
- Azure expense status
- February expenses were $4200 USD - nicely under $5000 budget
- Special thanks to Damien, Herve, and Stephane for cost reductions
- February expenses were $4200 USD - nicely under $5000 budget
- AWS credits donation
- Credits have been received, not yet applying credits to Jenkins tasks
- Delphix plugin uses a proprietary component
- Delphix maintainers have proposed an idea for the fix
- Thanks to @daniel-beck for finding the issue and working with Delphix plugin maintainers
- Java 11 end of life and Spring end of public support
- Last public build of Spring security framework 5.8.x is August 2024
- Spring security 6.x requires Jetty 11 with Jakarta EE 9 (jakartaee.servlet), not Jetty 10 with Jakarta EE 8 (javax.servlet)
- August 31, 2024 date seems likely to stick
- Last public build of Spring framework 5.3.x is August 2024
- Spring framework 6.1 and later require Java 17
- Alternatives:
- Accept that if there is a security vulnerability reported in Spring security 5.8.x between August 2024 and end Oct 2024, we may need to fork Spring Security and fix it ourselves
- Mark to start discussions in the mailing list to find alterantives
- Last public build of Spring security framework 5.8.x is August 2024