Governance Meeting September 19, 2022

[MarkEWaite (Mark Waite)]

2022-09-19T16:00:00Z

Jenkins Governance Meeting September 19, 2022

September 19, 2022

Participants: Basil Crow, Bruno Verachten, Mark Waite, Gavin Mogan, Oleg Nenashev, Ewelina Wilkosz, Daniel Beck, Kevin Martens

Agenda:

• News
  • LTS 2.361.2 release October 5, 2022
    • Kris Stern is the release lead, release checklist is open, backporting pull request, changelog pull request submitted
  • Hacktoberfest is coming, welcome to Preptember
  • UX SIG highlights of UI concepts
  • DevOps World next week
  • CDF mini-summit at Open Source Summit in Dublin
    • Presentation by Fidelity
    • Pipeline libraries and other Jenkins at scale
    • Recording should be available
• Action items
  • Mark Waite to use community.jenkins.io for the Jenkins Docs SIG mailing list
    • Announce the change and make the existing list read-only
    • Gavin investigated importing a mailing list, export is easy, import requires that we ask for help from the Discourse, complicated set of steps
      • Not worth the effort
  • Mark Waite request full access to the CDF Zoom account for Jenkins
    • Gavin suggested including a private google group in the CDF mailing list
      • Gavin “halkeye” Mogan make the group
        • https://groups.google.com/g/jenkins-zoom-users
      • Mark ask Michelle to add that group to the mailing list
        • Mark do it
    • 2fa token updates to that list
    • Alternately add each person to the CDF mailing list
      • Michelle Martineau (CDF) is the one to decide
  • EasyCLA needs to be documented by Oleg
    • Enabled on the CLA repository
    • Currently signing both
    • Central repository guidelines need more description
• Upcoming elections
  • December for completion
  • Gavin and Ewelina up for re-election
  • Damien Duportal has agreed to run the elections
    • Will discuss with Olivier Vernin to understand the process
    • Announcements, vetting candidates, etc. is a governing board responsibility
      • Entire board vets candidates
      • Any board member could send the announcements
      • Can reuse email templates and content from previous years
    • Discuss further in infra meeting
  • Timeline
    • September announce and gather candidates and their statements
      • Only 10 days left in September
    • October finalize candidates
    • November voting
    • New board members and officers effective early December
  • Use the same process as last year
    • Register to vote at community.jenkins.io
      • Organize list of candidates
      • Add Damien to the community.jenkins.io groups
    • Voting through the Condorcet system at Cornell University
      • If hosting is needed outside the University, Gavin has access to resources
• CDF topics
  • CDF blog post published for Jenkins 18th birthday and 2.361.1, written by Kevin Martens
    • Require Java 11, next Java 17
    • 6000 users on Java 17 in August, hope for 10k users in September
  • JFrog working with Jenkins infra team to reduce data transfer for our repository server
    • Prepare for a move of the repo from one cloud provider to another
    • Damien Duportal leading effort to reduce data transfer
    • Multi-step process expected, will be discussed in developer mailing list
  • Yearly Project previews at the CDF TOC Meetings
    • Two presentations at TOC
    • We need Jenkins to present
    • Should Jenkins present at TOC?
      • Yes
      • Interesting topics - third party security review
      • Goal: Show the direction of the project related to CDF status
        • Security reviews
        • Supply chain security
          • Signing of charts, container images, plugin builds, etc.
      • Should this be a summary of the contributor summit?
        • Not so much
      • Review OpenSSF best practices (SBOM, signing, etc.)
    • Next meeting is next week, every two weeks
      • November would be fine for a presentation
      • Agenda assembled 1-2 meetings ahead
• Forums and community topics
  • Contributor Summit is coming Sep 27 in Orlando, FL, USA
    • https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/3rfME7iSrwg
  • GitHub project actions from Google Summer of Code
    • Needs more discussion, just arrived a few hours ago
    • https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/KQ46z_q1l4U
    • Need to sign an additional agreement
      • Not expecting any legal concerns in this case
      • Published content on GitHub Marketplace
      • Prefer to have Damien Duportal involved as a GitHub Admin
      • Prefer to have security team involved, option to audit
        • Handling of security issue reports (may be as simple as a new component in security Jira, needs assigned owner(s))
  • Gavin has found a way to merge gitter, matrix, and IRC into a single room
    • Have a Jenkins infra matrix channel that is linked to three locations
    • Releases IRC, gitter, and matrix are all in a single room
      • All releases channels in a single matrix room
        • Matrix at the center, bridges to other locations
        • https://gitter.im/jenkinsci/release
        • #jenkins-release
        • https://matrix.to/#/#jenkins-release:matrix.org
      • All infra channels in a single matrix room
        • Matrix at the center, bridges to other locations
        • https://gitter.im/jenkinsci/jenkins-infra
        • #jenkins-infra
        • https://matrix.to/#/#jenkins-infra:matrix.org
    • Had a thread months ago proposing a merge of chat channels
    • Alex proposing merge of the releases IRC next
    • Update the chat page on jenkins.io to note those areas where we’re bridging
      • Kevin Martens to explore it and see if he can describe it
  • Show the pipeline graph viewer in a “Showing Off” section
    • Mark and Darin Pope will show it in a live stream tomorrow