We are delighted to announce that we will be hosting a Jenkins Contributor Summit in Brussels on Friday, January 30, 2026, preceding FOSDEM.
Event Details
We will update this post with more specific information as soon as we can confirm the details of the day.
Call for Participation
If you’re interested in:
- Attending the summit
- Presenting during the meeting
Please reply to this post to let us know!
We’re looking forward to your participation and contributions. 
In the meantime, here’s a draft of the proposed agenda.
Feel free to suggest changes: add new ideas, reorder topics, or adjust the structure.
It’s still very much a work in progress!
Morning session
| Time | Topic | Description & rationale |
|---|---|---|
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Welcome & practical details | Opening Remarks, Schedule Overview, and Logistics. Builds community energy and sets expectations. |
| 09:15 – 10:00 | Board & officer reports: The present and the future | Officers or ceremony host provide short presentations covering: Infrastructure (budget and sponsorship changes; migration to Azure and cost‑control projects like JFrog bandwidth reduction); Release (summary of 2025 LTS and weekly release cadence; highlight adoption of JDK 21 baseline and schedule for Java 25 support); Documentation (progress on UI redesign documentation, and jenkins.io retooling); Events & Advocacy (FOSDEM/SCaLE experiences, contributor spotlight, Hacktoberfest, new contributor onboarding); |
| Security (key advisories). | ||
| 10:00 – 10:20 | UX SIG update | Demonstrate the new header and navigation introduced in LTS 2.516.1 and subsequent refinements (dropdown fixes, skeleton outlines, icons). Present the plugin health‑score display and search improvements[.. Outline plans for 2026: improving plugin manager sorting, enhancing the pipeline graph view, and integrating design‑library components. |
| 10:20 – 10:30 | Platform SIG update | Summarize Debian 13 (Trixie) adoption, Windows 2025 migration, and the deprecation schedule for Windows 2019. Report progress on container image updates. Provide statistics from Java 25 plugin‑compatibility tests and detail the timeline for switching Jenkins core to Java 25 (targeting spring 2026). |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break | Networking opportunity. |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Java 25 support plan | Present the readiness plan for Java 25: summary of plugin‑testing results, work remaining in core (Jetty 12, Winstone updates), and the timeline for removing JDK 17 compatibility. Engage maintainers to commit to Java 25 readiness by March 2026. |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Plugin modernization & OpenRewrite | Showcase the OpenRewrite‑based plugin modernizer recipe for upgrading plugins to Java 25, summarize the GSoC project results, and discuss how maintainers can use the tool. Provide case studies of plugins successfully upgraded. |
| 12:00 – 13:00 | Lunch break | Informal networking and birds‑of‑a‑feather sessions (e.g., plugin maintainers meet‑up, docs contributors meet‑up). |
Afternoon session
| Time | Topic | Description & rationale |
|---|---|---|
| 13:00 – 13:30 | Documentation | Present progress on the jenkins.io retooling project; share metrics on improved navigation and search. Invite volunteers to contribute translations and documentation updates for Java 25. |
| 13:30 – 14:00 | User experience evolution | Discuss future UX projects: refining plugin health scores, improving the pipeline graph, enhancing the design library, and consolidating UI components. Solicit feedback on pain points and suggestions for user experience. |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Infrastructure & hosting update | Provide a deep dive into infrastructure initiatives: status of migrating ci.jenkins.io and other services to Azure; progress reducing Artifactory bandwidth and storage costs; and outlook for 2026 budgets |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Advocacy & Outreach: community building | Highlight successes from 2025: GSoC projects and final presentations, contributor spotlight stories, and new contributor onboarding proposals. Preview 2026 events: FOSDEM 2026 (booth planning), Hacktoberfest 2026, ScaleX, and other conferences. Discuss content ideas (e.g., top plugins guides, beginner tutorials) to maintain competitive visibility. Explain the election process and encourage community involvement in governance. |
| 15:00 – 15:20 | Coffee break | Refreshments. |
| 15:20 – 15:45 | Open discussion & roadmap | Encourage attendees to propose new initiatives. |
| 15:45 – 17:00 | Workshops | Break into small groups for hands‑on sessions: |
| • Plugin modernization coding session: upgrade sample plugins to Java 25 using the OpenRewrite recipe; test with the new platform images. | ||
| […] | ||
| • New contributor onboarding: pilot a structured onboarding workshop as proposed by the Advocacy & Outreach SIG. | ||
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Closing remarks and next steps | Summarize outcomes, assign owners for action items (e.g., Java 25 adoption, plugin modernization), thank participants and close the summit. |
The Jenkins Outreach Team
