Jenkins Governance Meeting August 11, 2025

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2025-08-11T16:30:00Z

Attendees :busts_in_silhouette:

Upcoming Calendar :tear_off_calendar:

  • Next weekly release: 2.523 Tuesday August 12, 2025
  • Next LTS: 2.516.2 - July 23, 2025
  • Next major events:
    • Open Source Summit Europe - Amsterdam - August 25-27, 2025

Agenda

News

  • Jenkins Election 2025 has started
    • Alex Earl leading the elections committee, following the election process
    • Register to vote by joining the election voter 2025 group
    • Two board seats up for election (currently held by Mark Waite and Basil Crow)
    • Five officer seats up for election (Security, Events, Release, Infrastructure, and Documentation)
    • Nominate by sending a message to the election committee

Action Items

  • Mark Waite notify Jenkins plugin maintainers that community plugin maintainers initiative opt-out is open (mail message)
  • Board members discuss CDF TOC candidates in the board mailing list by Wednesday end of day, submit final choice by 20 July 2025
  • Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page
  • Mark Waite propose further definition of sponsorship tiers
  • Mark Waite request transfer of Jenkins DNS ownership (jenkins.io and jenkins-ci.org) from R. Tyler Croy to the Linux Foundation

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
    • Beta test with Java 25 update project and a small team
      • Basil Crow, Mark Waite, Adrien Lecharpentier, Bruno Verachten, and Darin Pope

Governance Topics

  • Jenkins Election 2025 status report - Alex Earl
  • CDF Technical Oversight Committee project seat elections
    • Basil Crow has been elected from the Jenkins project
  • Jenkins Contributor Summit 2026
    • Friday before FOSDEM
    • Alyssa Tong has confirmed the venue with Beta Cowork - $250 fee to reserve the room
      • Expense approved by the Board? Yes
    • Mark Waite proposes we use a similar process as last year to prioritize attendees and their reimbursements
      • Spreadsheet with proposed attendees
      • Board members prioritize the attendees
      • Reimbursements from the Jenkins CrowdFunding site
  • CDF Membership Drive in September and October
    • Being planned by CDF Governing Board
    • Jenkins project needs CDF to continue strong and growing
    • Encourage companies to become CDF members
      • Must be a Linux Foundation member in order to be a CDF member
  • JFrog artifact storage reduction project (infra issue 4533)
    • Darin Pope reduced our storage to less then 2 TB
      • Deleted obsolete, unused caches after backup has been created
    • JFrog sponsorship allows not more than 10 TB monthly bandwidth, we are typically 30 TB monthly
      • JFrog access logs have been collected for over a month, Basil Crow has analyzed the data
      • Basil’s analysis of a month of logs does not show any major abusers
      • Largest users are being invited to reduce their use
      • Reductions will not be enough to drop below the JFrog 10 TB per month threshold
        • Something more significant will be required
          • Require authentication?
          • Limit bandwidth over a time period?
          • Other alternatives?
          • Self-host an instance?
        • Infrastructure changes are expected
      • Limited responses from some companies
        • Likely will block IP addresses of largest consumers for 2 days
          • Identify remaining large scale consumers by refusing them for 2 days
          • More conversations with those large scale consumers
      • Large percentage of bandwidth from a single AI company
        • Downloading every binary we had ever released
          • They honor a robots.txt file that shows how to block their download
          • JFrog is investigating that implementation now
  • Cloud expenses and plans
    • Current situation
      • Microsoft Azure sponsorship ends August 31, 2025
        • $900 remaining in the donation
        • Transition will complete before donated funds are depleted (help desk 4691)
      • AWS sponsorship ends 31 Jan 2027
        • AWS hosting ci.jenkins.io - 17 months before donation is depleted
      • DigitalOcean ends 31 Jan 2026
        • $13.4 remaining in the donation
        • Will increase our use of DigitalOcean
      • CDF sponsorship
        • $60k annual budget for 2025
        • Consumption increasing this month, will remain within annual budget
        • Damien Duportal will alert Linux Foundation of recent increase
    • Specific actions infrastructure team is taking
      • Move Redis database (updates.jenkins.io and get.jenkins.io) to CDF sponsored account
      • Alert CDF that we’re temporarily increasing monthly spend, knowing that we’ll remain within annual budget
      • Move more services from CDF to DigitalOcean (use the DigitalOcean donation before it expires)
    • Azure (CDF paid)
      • June: $3.5k
      • July: $4.3k
      • August: $6.5k (forecast - forewarning CDF about short term increase in Azure costs to CDF)
    • Azure Sponsorship (Microsoft Credits) - $900 remaining, donation ends Oct 2025
      • June: $10.5k
      • July: $5.1k
      • August: $500 (forecast)
    • DigitalOcean - Remaining $13k (~7k consumed) until 02 January 2025
      • June: $252
      • July: $196
      • August: $200 (forecast)
    • AWS:
      • CloudBees:
        • June: $598
        • July: $636
        • August: $620 (forecast)
      • Sponsored account
        • June: $370
        • July: $4900
        • August: $5200
  • Software in the Public Interest (SPI) funds
    • Mark received 4 board approval votes to donate remaining SPI funds to OSUOSL
      • Donation still in progress with SPI, no issues reported
    • Jenkins contributor summit next year?
      • Use Jenkins funds from the CrowdFunding site
  • Rotating who leads the meeting
    • Alex Earl - Sep
    • Valentin Delaye - Oct
    • Basil Crow - Nov
    • Alex Brandes - Dec
    • Mark - Jan