2025-10-13T16:30:00Z
Attendees 
- @MarkEWaite (Mark Waite)
- @jonesbusy (Valentin Delaye)
- @slide_o_mix (Alex Earl)
- @NotMyFault (Alexander Brandes)
Upcoming Calendar 
- Next weekly release: 2.532 Tuesday October 14, 2025
- Next LTS: 2.528.1
- Hervé Le Meur is release lead
- Release October 15, 2025
- Changelog and upgrade guide created by Kevin Martens
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
- 31 registered voters currently, significantly lower than the 82 registered voters from last year
- 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)
- When will we publish the list of candidates?
Action Items
- Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page
- Continues on the to-do list draft PR
- 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 not use the community plugin maintainers process - several key participants are unavailable
- Java 25 support follow the same pattern we used for previous major Java versions
- Community members work on it as their time and interests allow
- Java 25 support follow the same pattern we used for previous major Java versions
- Java 25 will not use the community plugin maintainers process - several key participants are unavailable
Governance Topics
- Jenkins Election 2025 status report - Alex Earl
- Alex will send out email to Developers and Users about nominations and registering for elections.
- Jenkins Contributor Summit 2026 - Mark Waite
- 30 Jan 2026
- Request the table in FOSDEM (until 9th Nov)
- Alyssa Tong has confirmed the venue with Beta Cowork - $250 fee to reserve the room
- Expense approved by the Board
- Mark Waite proposes we use a similar process as last year to prioritize attendees and their reimbursements
- Spreadsheet with proposed attendees
- Board members prioritize the attendees
- Reimbursements from the Jenkins CrowdFunding site
- Board approves this process
- Funding travel (~12000$ for 15 people)
- CDF Membership Drive - Mark Waite
- JFrog artifact reduction project (infra issue 4533) - Mark Waite
- OpenSSF Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship
- Continuous Delivery Foundation is a signatory of the joint statement
- Darin Pope keeps our storage less then 2 TB
- Bandwidth reductions are still needed
- Some progress with high volume consumers
- AWS abuse report is progressing slowly on the top 3 consumers
- Jenkins project use has further reduced bandwidth use
- Some new consumers that may need attention
- Chinanet IP addresses that we don’t know how to contact but have reduced use in recent days
- JFrog sponsorship allows not more than 10 TB monthly bandwidth, we are now at 20 TB monthly
- JFrog billing logs analyzed daily by Darin Pope scripts
- 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
- Something more significant will be required
- 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
- Likely will block IP addresses of largest consumers for 2 days
- 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
- Not sure where this stands at JFrog
- Downloading every binary we had ever released
- Have done some work on our side to reduce the usage on our agents
- Usage has gone down 20-30% since the work started
- Currently don’t see a path getting down that low with organic improvements
- Still an ongoing conversation with JFrog
- Next steps are to do some brown outs and block some IP addresses to see who complains
- This will allow us to find out who the top users are and communicate with them to reduce their usage
- In a holding pattern to determine next steps
- Waiting on JFrog for some feedback on what they want to do next
- OpenSSF Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship
- Cloud expenses and plans
- Current situation
- Microsoft Azure sponsorship ended August 31, 2025
- Transition completed before donated funds were depleted (help desk 4691)
- Azure CDF - Remaining: $24k for 2025:
- September: $6k
- On target to stay within budget for 2025
- DigitalOcean - Remaining $13,242.16 until January 02, 2026
- September: $365
- Increased use as part of migrations, still within budget
- AWS:
- CloudBees:
- September: $700, still within budget (pushing to $0 in 2026)
- Sponsored account ($83k credits lefts until 2027 => ~16 months remaining)
- August: $7k
- CloudBees:
- Issues with no spot instances being available
- Cost savings from spot instances are currently not enough to justify them
- Microsoft Azure sponsorship ended August 31, 2025
- Current situation
- Software in the Public Interest (SPI) funds
- $3100 donation to Oregon State University Open Source Lab has been received
- Jenkins account at SPI is emptied of funds, expect SPI to close the Jenkins account
- Opens
- Oleg Nenashev
- Mailing list item about common account for Gradle portal for Jenkins based items
- Would like to have someone from the infrastructure team to determine next steps
- Oleg Nenashev
- Rotating who leads the meeting
- Alex Earl - Nov
- Alex Brandes - Dec
- Alex Earl - Jan
- Valentin Delaye - Feb
- New board member 1 - Mar
- New board member 2 - Apr