# Jenkins Governance Meeting October 13, 2025 **URL:** \ **Category:** Community\ **Tags:** meeting, governance\ **Created:** [October 13, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/jenkins-governance-meeting-october-13-2025/35706 "2025-10-13T21:50:53Z")\ **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:** [October 13, 2025, 9:50pm UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/jenkins-governance-meeting-october-13-2025/35706/1 "2025-10-13T21:50:53Z")
2025-10-13T16:30:00Z [![](https://europe1.discourse-cdn.com/flex013/uploads/jenkins/original/3X/4/c/4c7b073f0fc9dc6ca67324c579cd52208c3ac47b.jpeg "Jenkins Governance Meeting October 13, 2025") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T_H9G8ToL-Y) ## 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](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/8458) created by Kevin Martens ## Agenda ### News - [Jenkins Election 2025](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2025/08/08/board-officer-election-announcement/) has started - Alex Earl leading the elections committee, following the election process - Register to vote by joining the [election voter 2025 group](https://community.jenkins.io/g/election-voter-2025) - 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](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/6882) - Mark Waite propose further definition of sponsorship tiers - Mark Waite request transfer of Jenkins DNS ownership ([jenkins.io](http://jenkins.io) and [jenkins-ci.org](http://jenkins-ci.org)) from R. Tyler Croy to the Linux Foundation ### Community activity - [Community plugin maintainers proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GEI7tQp3UxGCbQQyF1JdujgwkoWcMluvUMFanV2nDGo/edit?usp=sharing) 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 ### Governance Topics - [Jenkins Election 2025](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2025/08/08/board-officer-election-announcement/) 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 - [Blog](https://cd.foundation/blog/2025/10/09/why-be-open-source-member/) posted 9 Sep 2025 - [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7h6nBhRKpk) panel with - Gerard McMahon - Dadisi Sanyika - Melissa McKay - Mark Waite - Lori Lorusso - 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 reduction project ([infra issue 4533](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/4533)) - Mark Waite - OpenSSF [Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship](https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-a-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 - 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 - Not sure where this stands at JFrog - 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 - Cloud expenses and plans - Current situation - Microsoft Azure sponsorship ended August 31, 2025 - Transition completed before donated funds were depleted ([help desk 4691](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/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 - Issues with no spot instances being available - Cost savings from spot instances are currently not enough to justify them - 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 - 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