# Governance Meeting, November 27, 2023 **URL:** \ **Category:** Community\ **Tags:** meeting, governance\ **Created:** [November 28, 2023, 1:53am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/governance-meeting-november-27-2023/10976 "2023-11-28T01:53:31Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MarkEWaite](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/markewaite/32/20_2.png) [@MarkEWaite](https://community.jenkins.io/u/MarkEWaite)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2023, 1:53am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/governance-meeting-november-27-2023/10976/1 "2023-11-28T01:53:31Z")
2023-11-27T19:00:00Z [![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/2X/2/2eabf88c33dce7562255d66b878f1170fc674542.jpeg "Jenkins Governance Meeting November 27, 2023") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqy0ycKcqdo) # 27 Nov 2023 ## Attendees 👥 - @MarkEWaite (Mark Waite) - @basil (Basil Crow) - @uhafner (Ullrich Hafner) - @poddingue (Bruno Verachten) - @NotMyFault (Alexander Brandes) ## Upcoming Calendar 📆 - Next LTS: 2.426.2, December 13, 2023 - Kris Stern is the release lead, [backporting pull request](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/8721) submitted - Release candidate scheduled for Wednesday November 29, 2023 - Next weekly release: 2.434 - Two week break in LTS schedule: 2.426.3, January 24, 2024 (6 weeks after 2.426.2 instead of the usual 4 weeks) - Refer to [developer mailing list discussion](https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/vfoiV7HAn94/m/ZHo9h6PSGQAJ) for details - No break expected in weekly release schedules - Next major events: - FOSDEM 2024 - February 2-4, 2024 - Jenkins Contributor Summit Friday February 2, 2024 - Jean-Marc Meessen collecting agenda topics in [community forum](https://community.jenkins.io/t/jenkins-contributor-summit-on-feb-2-2024-call-for-topics-and-ideas/10689) - FOSDEM conference Saturday and Sunday February 3-4, 2024 ## Agenda ### News - Jenkins 2.426.1 released Nov 15, 2023 - [Ratings](https://www.jenkins.io/changelog-stable/#v2.426.1) look very good - 79 reports of “no major issues” - 1 report of “I experienced notable issues”, but without an issue number - 0 reports of “I had to roll back” - 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 - Java 21 supported - One [Java 21 intermittent memory leak](https://issues.jenkins.io/browse/JENKINS-72325) as reported by automated tests - [Script security plugin pull request](https://github.com/jenkinsci/script-security-plugin/pull/543) merged to resolve the memory leak - [Script security plugin release 1294.v99333c047434](https://github.com/jenkinsci/script-security-plugin/releases/tag/1294.v99333c047434) - Jira issues being watched closely - One issue about adjunct removed that needs more investigation ### Action Items - Mark create issue to drop the weekly build of BOM in favor of human launched build ( **done** ) - Basil create issue to drop middle two lines from BOM full-test label ( **done** ) - Damien create issue to switch agent implementation to virtual machines - Ulli propose a PR revising the election process to ( **done** ) - nominate 1 month earlier - Proposed the pull request, waiting for reviews, needs reviews - December 2 is listed as the transition date, a little surprising compared to end of month or start of month dates - 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 - Election group closed on [community.jenkins.io](http://community.jenkins.io) - Need to prepare for the transition December 11 - Revise the documentation from last year on the groups that need to be changed - Remove Oleg and add Basil to the appropriate groups at the transition - Refer to the checklist from last year - Timeline - Results announcement (December 11) - Blog post is planned for the December 11 date (last governance meeting, confirm all changes are correct and complete) - Mark Waite submit [jenkins.io](http://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 has started his local Kubernetes development environment to prototype the transition - Mark still needs to start his local Kubernetes development environment to prototype the transition - Once prototyped, then Kevin and Mark meet with Damien Duportal to review next steps - Kevin Martens (Docs Officer) tracking [help desk ticket](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/3379) 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 - No progress - Mark provide details of the attribution for the downloads page - Basil create the attribution entries for the page ### Community activity - Jenkins contributor spotlight - Java 11, 17, and 21 in Jenkins - Mark Waite ### Governance Topics - Letter of recommendation for a Jenkins GSoC contributor - [Attribution request](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/issues/6861) for downloads page from JFrog - Board and officer elections - Alexander Brandes - Social media posting status report - Processing the Azure credits donation - Damien Duportal - Donation of Oracle Cloud costs by CloudBees - Mark Waite