# Jenkins Governance Meeting June 16, 2025 **URL:** https://community.jenkins.io/t/jenkins-governance-meeting-june-16-2025/32962 **Category:** Community **Tags:** meeting, governance **Created:** [June 18, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/jenkins-governance-meeting-june-16-2025/32962 "2025-06-18T02:07:21Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![MarkEWaite](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/user_avatar/community.jenkins.io/markewaite/32/20_2.png) [@MarkEWaite](https://community.jenkins.io/u/MarkEWaite) #### Post date: [June 18, 2025, 2:07am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/jenkins-governance-meeting-june-16-2025/32962/1 "2025-06-18T02:07:21Z")
2025-06-16T16:30:00Z [![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/2X/f/fa144a9ae4a5fb37f9326d04a8b08056f75fd7e5.jpeg "Jenkins Governance Meeting June 16, 2025") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am8u_7U9vhA) ## Attendees 👥 - @MarkEWaite (Mark Waite) - @jonesbusy (Valentin Delaye) - @basil (Basil Crow) - @kmartens27 (Kevin Martens) - @poddingue (Bruno Verachten) ## Upcoming Calendar 📆 - Next weekly release: 2.515 Tuesday June 17, 2025 - Proposed LTS baseline 2.514 - releasing July 23, 2025 - Next LTS: 2.504.3 - June 25, 2025 - Phillip Glanz is release lead, running the [release checklist](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/release/issues/696) - Backporting announcement, backport [candidates](https://issues.jenkins.io/issues/?filter=12146) and [selected](https://issues.jenkins.io/issues/?jql=labels%20%3D%202.504.3-fixed) - Release candidate June 12, 2025 - Release June 25, 2025 - Next major events: - cdCon and Open Source Summit North America - Denver, CO, USA - June 23-25, 2025 - Open Source Summit Europe - Amsterdam - August 25-27, 2025 ## Agenda ### News - Voting is complete for the [2025 Jenkins Awards](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2025/03/18/jenkins-contributor-awards-2025-nomination-is-open/), results announced at [cdCon June 23-25, 2025](https://cd.foundation/cdcon-2025/) ### Action Items - Mark Waite submit quarterly CDF status report for Technical Oversight Committee (done for [Q1](https://github.com/cdfoundation/toc/pull/239) and [Q2](https://github.com/cdfoundation/toc/pull/240)) - Board members approved rotating assignment to write future status reports - Alex Earl - September 2025 - Basil Crow - December 2025 - Valentin Delaye - March 2026 - Alexander Brandes - June 2026 - Mark Waite - September 2026 - 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 - Mark Waite confirm with SPI that the donation to OSUOSL is acceptable - Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page - Continues on the to-do list [draft PR](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/6882) - Mark Waite propose further definition of sponsorship tiers - Mark Waite notify Jenkins plugin maintainers that community plugin maintainers initiative opt-out is open ### Community activity - Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) moved from Tier 1 support to Tier 2 support in [browser compatibility matrix](https://www.jenkins.io/doc/book/platform-information/support-policy-web-browsers/#browser-compatibility-matrix) - Refer to the [documentation pull request](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/8191) and the [core pull request](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/10078) that inspired the change - [Community plugin maintainers proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GEI7tQp3UxGCbQQyF1JdujgwkoWcMluvUMFanV2nDGo/edit?usp=sharing) 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 - Google Summer of Code project accepted for Plugin Modernizer project with @jonesbusy as lead mentor - Considering adding a recipe for Java 25 migration - Oleg’s concern is that opt-out is required, but wants maintainers to have more time to decide to opt-out - Adopt a plugin only requires a two week period for adoption - Proposal: Email message to known maintainers stating that project is starting (in the future) and they need to opt-out if not interested ### Governance Topics - CDF and Linux Foundation need to own the [jenkins.io](http://jenkins.io) domain and its subdomains - Mark Waite to request transfer of ownership from R. Tyler Croy to the Linux Foundation - Plugin statistics are being reported - Improvements are pending to move the tasks to Jenkins infra - JFrog artifact storage reduction project ([infra issue 4533](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/4533)) - JFrog sponsorship allows not more than 5 TB storage, we were over 10 TB storage - Darin Pope reduced our storage to less then 2 TB - Deleted obsolete, unused caches after backup has been created - We are still exceeding their bandwidth limits (limit is 10TB per month, currently using 20Tb per month) - JFrog access logs have been collected for a week, Basil Crow has agreed to analyze them to detect abuse and overuse - Basil’s guess is that GitHub Actions are the primary consumer, logs will answer the question - The bandwidth use is from the releases repository, not from public - Cloud expenses and plans - Current situation - Microsoft Azure sponsorship extended to August 31, 2025 - $13.6k 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 - Discussions started on how to announce the donation - DigitalOcean ends 31 Jan 2026 - $13.7 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](http://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** - 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](http://ci.jenkins.io) back to AWS in June - Azure (CDF paid) - March: $4.3k - April: $4.1k - May: $3.2k - June: $3.8k (forecast) - Azure Sponsorship (Microsoft Credits) - $13k remaining, donation ends Oct 2025 - March: $4.3k - April $12.1k - May: $14.6k - June: $10k (forecast) - DigitalOcean - Remaining $13k (~7k consumed) until 02 January 2025 - March: $272 - April: $349 - May: $310 - June: $240 (forecast) - AWS: - CloudBees: - March: $551 - April: $532 - May: $548 - June: $550 (forecast) - Sponsored account - March: $14.6k - April: $2k - May: $3 - Software in the Public Interest (SPI) funds - Mark received 4 board approval votes to donate remainng SPI funds to OSUOSL - Refer to OSUOSL blog posts - [OSUOSL in jeopardy](https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future/) and [OSUOSL future update](https://osuosl.org/blog/osl-future-update/) - SPI treasurer is checking if we are allowed to donate Jenkins funds from SPI to OSUOSL - If funds are earmarked specifically for benefit of Jenkins project, then we may not be allowed to donate them to SPI - Jenkins contributor summit next year? - Mark asked SPI to extend until March 2026 - Bruno attending Open Source Summit Europe