Jenkins Governance Meeting July 14, 2025

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2025-07-14T16:30:00Z

14 Jul 2025

Attendees :busts_in_silhouette:

Upcoming Calendar :tear_off_calendar:

  • Next weekly release: 2.519 Tuesday July 15, 2025
  • Next LTS: 2.516.1 - July 23, 2025
  • Next major events:
    • Refreshed Jenkins Design in 2.516.1 - live stream Wednesday July 16, 2025
    • Open Source Summit Europe - Amsterdam - August 25-27, 2025

Agenda

News

  • 2025 Jenkins Awards announced at cdCon June 23-25, 2025
    • Jenkins blog
    • Jenkins Security MVP - Daniel Beck
    • Most Valuable Contributor - Jan Faracik
    • Most Valuable Jenkins Advocate - Stefan Spieker

Action Items

  • Mark Waite confirm with SPI that the donation to OSUOSL is acceptable
  • Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page
  • Mark Waite propose further definition of sponsorship tiers
  • Mark Waite notify Jenkins plugin maintainers that community plugin maintainers initiative opt-out is open
  • Board members discuss candidates in the board mailing list by Wednesday end of day, submit final choice by 20 July 2025

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 one community plugin maintenance project and a small team
      • Mark Waite, Basil Crow, Adrien Lecharpentier, Bruno Verachten, and Darin Pope

Governance Topics

  • CDF Technical Oversight Committee end user elections are complete
    • Dan Johnson of Capital One has been elected
    • Aravind Kannan of Ebay has been elected
  • CDF Technical Oversight Committee project seat elections
    • Each CDF project (CDEvents, Jenkins, Jenkins X, Ortelius, Screwdriver, Spinnaker, and Tekton), is invited to nominate one community member to stand for election.
    • Election details
      • Nomination period: July 14–20, 2025
      • Voting period: July 21–27, 2025
      • Winners announced: July 28, 2025
      • Term duration: August 1, 2025 – July 31, 2027
    • Requirements for Nominees:
      • Must be an active participant in the CDF project or broader community.
      • Must be able to attend all TOC meetings, which occur biweekly and are one hour in duration.
      • Please confirm the nominee’s willingness to serve before submitting their name.
    • To submit a nomination, please add a comment to the open github issue with the following information:
      • Name and Github of the nominee
      • Affiliated CDF project
      • Short bio and statement of interest (optional but encouraged)
      • Confirmation that the nominee has agreed to run
  • CDF and Linux Foundation need to own the jenkins.io domain and its subdomains
    • Mark Waite to request transfer of ownership from R. Tyler Croy to the Linux Foundation
  • 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 several weeks, Basil Crow has analyzed the first week
      • Basil analysis of first week’s log does not show any major abusers
        • Something more significant will be required
          • Require authentication?
          • Limit bandwidth over a time period?
          • Other alternatives?
          • Self-host an instance?
        • Infrastructure changes are expected
  • Cloud expenses and plans
    • Current situation
      • Microsoft Azure sponsorship extended to August 31, 2025
        • $3k remaining in the donation
        • Microsoft confirmed there will be no new donation
      • AWS sponsorship ends 31 Jan 2027
        • AWS has granted an additional $60k donation, enough to last into mid 2026
      • DigitalOcean ends 31 Jan 2026
        • $13.4 remaining in the donation
        • Will increase our use of DigitalOcean
      • CDF sponsorship
        • $60k annual budget for 2025
        • Well under budget for 2025, holding savings in reserve in case we need it later in 2025
    • Specific actions infrastructure team is taking
      • Move ci.jenkins.io back to Azure for April, May, and part of June (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
      • Move more services from CDF to DigitalOcean (use the DigitalOcean donation before it expires)
      • Move ci.jenkins.io back to AWS in June (in progress)
    • Azure (CDF paid)
      • April: $4.1k
      • May: $3.2k
      • June: $3.5k
    • Azure Sponsorship (Microsoft Credits) - $13k remaining, donation ends Oct 2025
      • April $12.1k
      • May: $14.6k
      • June: $10.5k
    • DigitalOcean - Remaining $13k (~7k consumed) until 02 January 2025
      • March: $272
      • April: $349
      • May: $310
      • June: $252
    • AWS:
      • CloudBees:
        • March: $551
        • April: $532
        • May: $548
        • June: $598
      • Sponsored account
        • March: $14.6k
        • April: $2k
        • May: $3
        • June: $370
  • Software in the Public Interest (SPI) funds
    • Mark received 4 board approval votes to donate remainng 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
    • Bruno attending Open Source Summit Europe