Jenkins Governance Meeting April 14, 2025

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2025-04-14T16:30:00Z

Attendees :busts_in_silhouette:

Upcoming Calendar :tear_off_calendar:

  • Next weekly release: 2.506 Tuesday April 15, 2025
  • Next LTS: 2.504.1 - April 30, 2025
  • Next major events:
    • cdCon and Open Source Summit North America - Denver, CO, USA - June 23-25, 2025

Agenda

News

Action Items

  • Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page
  • Mark Waite submit Jenkins Contributor Summit summary blog post
  • Mark Waite submit quarterly CDF status report (was due 7 Mar 2025)
  • Mark Waite track reimbursements of all SPI funded attendees at Jenkins Contributor Summit
    • Payments confirmed by SPI - $6000 reimbursed for community travel, $3134.93 remains at SPI
      • Jan Faracik
  • Mark Waite propose further definition of sponsorship tiers

Community activity

  • Community plugin maintainers proposal for discussion in Jenkins developer mailing list
    • Java 25 will release in September 2025, Jenkins support will likely require a sweep across all the plugins
    • Jakarta EE 9 sweep was much smoother than the last sweep a year ago
      • Did not have to battle with outdated sources in top 250 plugins
    • Beta test with one community plugin maintenance project and a small team
      • Mark Waite, Basil Crow, Adrien Lecharpentier, Bruno Verachten, and Darin Pope

Governance Topics

  • JFrog artifact storage reduction project (infra issue 4533)
    • JFrog sponsorship allows not more than 5 TB storage, we were over 10 TB storage
    • Darin Pope reduced our storage to less then 4 TB
      • Delete obsolete, unused caches after backup has been created
    • Refer to 2023 summary of previous bandwidth reduction project
    • Develocity sponsorship could reduce bandwidth use by caching dependency
      • Apache reduced their bandwidth use by an order of magnitude with Develocity
  • Cloud expenses and plans
    • Current situation
      • Microsoft Azure sponsorship ends May 31, 2025
        • $42k remaining in the donation
        • Microsoft renewal requested, won’t know until end of April
      • AWS sponsorship ends 31 Jan 2027
        • $36k remaining in the donation
      • DigitalOcean ends 31 Jan 2026
        • $14.5 remaining in the donation
      • CDF sponsorship
        • $60k annual budget for 2025
    • Specific actions infrastructure team is taking
      • Move ci.jenkins.io back to Azure for April and May (use the Microsoft donation before it expires) Done
      • Alert CDF that we’re temporarily reducing monthly spend, knowing that we’ll increase later in the year Done
      • Meet with sponsors at cdCon / Open Source Summit North America in June (Denver, CO, USA) - Mark Waite and Basil Crow
      • Move more services from CDF to DigitalOcean (use the DigitalOcean donation before it expires)
      • Move ci.jenkins.io back to AWS if additional Microsoft donation is not granted
        • AWS ci.jenkins.io is about $6k per month - 5 months of run-time before donation is exhausted
    • Azure (CDF paid)
      • January: $4.3k
      • February: $4.0k
      • March: $4.3k
      • April: $4.1k (forecast)
    • Azure Sponsorship (Microsoft Credits) - $41k remaining, donation ends May 2025
      • January: $13.1k
      • February: $11.2k
      • March: $4.3k
      • April $3.7k (forecast)
    • DigitalOcean - Remaining $15k (~5k consumed) until 02 January 2025
      • January: $219
      • February: $237
      • March: $272
      • April: $280 (forecast)
    • AWS:
      • CloudBees:
        • January: $543
        • February: $550
        • March: $551
        • April: $500 (forecast)
      • Sponsored account
        • January: $1.4k
        • February: $8.5k
        • March: $14.6k
        • April: $6.5k (forecast)
  • Software in the Public Interest (SPI) funds
    • Jenkins contributor summit next year?
      • Ask SPI to extend until March 2025
      • If they are unwilling, look for other ways to use the funds
    • Attempt to find a way to use the $3000 for cloud funding
    • $800 Fund Basil registration at Open Source Summit North America?
      • Oleg suggested that’s a lower priority for Jenkins benefit
    • Bruno attending Open Source Summit Europe
  • GSoC logistics discussion between Oleg and Kris and Bruno - delayed
    • Might have a GSoC project to update Gradle toolchain for Jenkins
    • Kotlin foundation has 200 draft proposals and 12 project ideas, many candidates
      • Bazel, Gradle, Kotlin, and more