Governance Meeting, March 6, 2023

2023-03-06T18:00:00Z

Agenda:

  • News
    • Jenkins is a Google Summer of Code 2023 mentoring organization
      • Twice a week sessions introducing the project ideas
      • Very active conversations in the gitter channels
      • Project count will be limited by the number of lead mentors available
      • Why so many applicants this year? (5x more than last year)
    • Jenkins 2.387.1, 2.375.4, and 2.394 release March 8, 2023
    • February newsletter being prepared - submit your text
  • Action items
    • Rework press contact page on jenkins.io - Alexander Brandes
    • EasyCLA to be documented by Oleg
      • No progress, no requests pending, pick it up if there are CLA submissions
    • Mark Waite submit jenkins.io pull request to combine subprojects and SIGs into a single concept - “working groups”
      • No progress, Mark to complete
      • Roadmap update pull requests, needs to be update
    • Retire the Chinese Jenkins site
      • Rick recommends that we redirect the chinese pages to English equivalents
      • Kevin Martens (Docs Officer) tracking 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
      • Alexander Brandes has something in mind on how to structure things.
      • Infra team raised about the repository location as a question
      • Oleg prefers jenkinsci rather than jenkins-infra for a governance repository (this is not about the archive repository!)
        • Mark check the infra team preference, discuss if not jenkinsci
    • Build Monitor View plugin repository transfer to jenkinsci org @Basil
  • Reminder of board member role in the Jenkins code of conduct
    • board members are:
      “responsible for clarifying and enforcing our standards of acceptable behavior and will take appropriate and fair corrective action in response to any behavior that they deem inappropriate, threatening, offensive, or harmful.”
    • Happy to have recommendations for improvements based on recent gitter chat messages
      • User expressing comments with offensive words and harsh phrasing, responded positively to code of conduct mention
  • Jira license changes affect the Jenkins project on or before Feb 2024
    • Atlassian has approved our continued use of https://issues.jenkins.io
    • Linux Foundation will continue to host us
    • Further discussions in progress to assure all are aligned
    • Mark’s proposed blog post draft has started but not finished
      • Mark to gather more data to make the blog post more interesting
      • Write the blog post once with final details from Linux Foundation
  • CDF topics
    • Jenkins project presentation to the CDF Technical Oversight Committee
      • Mark Waite plans to present Jenkins status report at a future session
        • Mark create presentation, share it with this group, invite comments, corrections
    • LFX Tools working group starting based on last CDF TOC meeting
  • Community activity
    • Artifactory bandwidth reduction project https://repo.jenkins-ci.org
      • Artifact caching proxy has nicely reduced bandwidth use by Jenkins CI servers
      • Largest user is an IP address in China that repeatedly downloads war file of all Jenkins releases
        • Abuse reports have been ignored by the ISP
        • Attempts to locate the owner have failed
        • Abuse reports to other locations are in progress
        • Working with JFrog to see if there is a way to block that IP address
      • Log files provided weekly by JFrog
        • Log file analysis tool from Basil Crow places log records in SQLite database
        • More analysis needed to understand current top consumers
        • No final answer on blocking specific IP addresses
      • More changes are likely, continue making progress
    • Jenkins project at SCaLE 20x March 10-12
      • Booth staffed by Mark Waite and Alyssa Tong
    • CDF Jenkins Awards nominations