Governance Meeting, November 13, 2023

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2023-11-08T20:00:00Z

Attendees :busts_in_silhouette:

Upcoming Calendar :calendar:

  • Next LTS: 2.426.1, November 15, 2023
    • Prototype.js removed
    • Java 11 end of life administrative monitor shown to users running Java 11
    • No support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and derivatives as announced in the end of life operating system blog post
  • Next weekly release: 2.432
  • Next major events:
    • Jenkins officer and board elections
      • Nomination of candidates closed Oct 27, 2023
      • Voter registration closed Nov 5, 2023
      • Only one candidate for each open position
        • Board members - Basil Crow, Mark Waite
        • Officers as currently stand, for another year
      • Voting from Nov 6 - Dec 1
      • Results announced Dec 11 - Basil welcome to the board Dec 11, 2023

Agenda

News

Action Items

  • Mark create issue to drop the weekly build of BOM in favor of human launched build
  • Basil create issue to drop middle two lines from BOM full-test label
  • Damien create issue to switch agent implementation to virtual machines
  • Ulli propose a PR revising the election process to
    • nominate 1 month earlier
    • only register voters if more than one person is a candidate for at least one position
  • Alexander Brandes and Ullrich Hafner run the officer and board elections for 2023
    • How to announce the results?
      • Publish a blog post that there is no vote needed
      • Follow pattern of last year
      • Would it be better to first gather candidates, then register voters?
        • Second year where we did not need to vote
        • Start a month earlier to search candidates, then do not register voters
    • 57 registered voters, but no vote needed
    • Timeline
      • Nominations are closed (September 18 - October 27)
        • All roles have at least one nominee
          • If role is uncontested, then no need to vote
        • If candidates agree to accept the nomination and they are only nominee, then they are elected
      • Voter registration is closed (September 18 - November 05)
      • Voting not needed (November 06 - December 1)
      • Results announcement (December 11)
  • Mark Waite submit jenkins.io pull request to combine subprojects and SIGs into a single concept - “working groups”
    • More pull requests needed
  • Retire the Chinese Jenkins site (Kevin Martens)
    • Kevin, Damien and Mark met to review structure and understand the alternatives
      • Ready to create a prototype locally, then meet with Damien again
    • Chinese site link removed from www.jenkins.io header
    • Kevin Martens (Docs Officer) tracking help desk ticket to replace the Chinese pages with redirects to the English pages
      • Kevin working with the infrastructure team on the Helm charts implementing the Chinese site
  • Mark Waite draft a proposal to the board for license policy and phrasing changes
    • No further progress
    • Allow other licenses like the JSON license
    • Some other approach?
    • What license should be used for a library plugin?
      • License of the wrapped library (if wrapped library has no separate code, then seems likely)
      • MIT license as used by Jenkins plugins (if abstraction layer in the plugin, then MIT for ours?)
    • Review responses from other projects to license mixture (e.g. PyPI)
      • Mostly focuses on OSI approved licenses but include a separate category for other licenses
        • Have categories for freeware, public domain, and more
        • Reasonable precedent for allowing a wider range of licenses
        • Needs more discussion, but being more permissive is working for PyPI
        • Newer licenses may be more controversial
  • Mark Waite update the governance meeting GitHub repository with the latest meeting notes

Community activity

  • Intelligent test report experiment from Kohsuke Kawaguchi

    • Developer mailing list request seeking users to explore it
      • Kohsuke asks, “Would it be OK if I submit the necessary change in the CI pipeline & others to get this feature activated for Jenkins core?”
      • Mark reply to the message that discussed and agreed

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

    • 2+2+2 Java support plan - Jenkins enhancement proposal submitted
      • Include the steps of the Java migration as part of the JEP (work estimate, tasks, etc.)
        • Currently gathered in a block comment in Jenkins core
        • Making a Java version the recommended version
        • Dropping support for a Java version
        • Allow future release leads and other contributors to use the document
        • Further refinements to be done in the JEP
    • Summary of discussions
    • Key dates
      • Oct 3, 2023 - Java 11 end of life monitor visible in Jenkins weekly
      • Nov 15, 2023 - Java 11 end of life monitor visible in Jenkins LTS
      • Oct 2, 2024 - Last Jenkins LTS release to support Java 11
      • Oct 30, 2024 - First Jenkins LTS to require Java 17
      • Oct 31, 2024 - end of Java 11 support by Jenkins project

  • Hacktoberfest complete

Governance Topics

  • Board and officer elections - Alexander Brandes
    • Final announcement from Alex and Ulli
  • Social media posting guidelines or guidance?
    • Advocacy and outreach post from Jenkins Twitter and LinkedIn for U.S. Veteran’s Day
      • Good to have more traffic on the Jenkins social media accounts
      • Awkward to have a U.S. specific holiday that might be misinterpreted by those outside the U.S.
      • OK to offer a “-1” for a social media post (Bruno)
      • Ulli wanted information about Jenkins as a dev tool, not celebrating unrelated topics
        • Holiday comments are unrelated to Jenkins primary
        • Focus social media on Jenkins topics rather than “social” topics
        • Things that are a net worth to the developer community
      • Mark extend guidelines to emphasize developer centric posts rather than social posts
    • Alex Brandes receives GitHub Supply Chain Sentinel award from Jenkins Twitter and LinkedIn
      • Positive all around, no concerns
  • Processing the Azure credits donation - Damien Duportal
    • Create a new MSOP subscription to host ephemeral workloads and retain persistent workloads on existing “MCA” subscription
    • Use the separate subscription for ephemeral
    • Focused on new update center, but will start this before end of year
    • Primary target - ephemeral agent
  • Donation of Oracle Cloud costs by CloudBees - Mark Waite
    • Still no progress from Oracle
    • Oracle Cloud account remains open until Oracle agrees all invoices are resolved
    • Total CloudBees donation - $1800 or less
    • Jenkins project expenses on Oracle Cloud $0.00 since 30 Sep 2023
  • Jenkins infrastructure costs overview - Damien Duportal
    • Current infrastructure costs
    • Cost reduction projects recently completed
    • Cost reduction projects in progress