January 22, 2024 Governance Board Agenda

[Mark Waite]

News

• Wednesday Jan 24, 2024 security release of both weekly and LTS versions
  • Merges to Jenkins core are intentionally blocked to avoid disrupting that release
  • Security advisory will be published the day of the release
• Docker sponsorship of Jenkins project continues (controllers, agents, and containers for infrastructure)

Action Items

• Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page
  • Jenkins sponsors have changed
    • DigitalOcean donated over $20k USD last year and has donated $20k in 2024
      
    • AWS donation request has been submitted. Answer in 30 days. If no donation, then should remove AWS from root page
• Kevin Martens retire the Chinese Jenkins site
  • Mark needs to do more Kubernetes setup, then Kevin and Mark will meet with Damien

Community activity

• Contributor Summit Feb 2, 2024 in Brussels

  • Over 20 confirmed attendees, including 4 of 5 board members and most Jenkins officers
  • Jean-Marc Meessen is coordinating the agenda
  • Draft agenda proposal includes:
    • Board and officer reports and look to the future
      • Board report - a board member
      • Infrastructure report - Damien Duportal
      • Release officer report - Tim Jacomb(?) or Mark Waite
      • Docs officer report - Kevin Martens
      • Events officer report - Alyssa Tong
      • Security officer report - Wadeck Follonier
      • User experience SIG report - Tim Jacomb(?) or Mark Waite
    • Changes in Jenkins for HA/HS support - Vincent Latombe
    • Blue Ocean deprecation prep - Alex Brandes & Damien Duportal
    • User experience evolution - Tim Jacomb(?) or Mark Waite
    • Searching the code with the “usage in plugins” tool - Basil Crow
    • Jenkinsfile Runner update - Oleg Nenashev
    • Java support plan - Mark Waite
  • Submit agenda suggestions to community.jenkins.io

• Java 11, 17, and 21 in Jenkins - Mark Waite

  • 2+2+2 Java support plan - Jenkins enhancement proposal submitted
    • Include the steps of the Java migration as part of the JEP (work estimate, tasks, etc.)
      • Mark has much more work to do here
        • Adding a Java version (use Java 21 addition as the pattern)
        • Making a Java version the recommended version (use Java 17 as the pattern)
        • Dropping support for a Java version (refer to Java 11 for ideas)
      • Further refinements to be done in the JEP
  • Key dates
    • Oct 2, 2024 - Last Jenkins LTS release to support Java 11
    • Oct 30, 2024 - First Jenkins LTS to require Java 17
    • Oct 31, 2024 - end of Java 11 support by Jenkins project

Governance Topics

• Jenkins awards - Alyssa Tong

  • Overview of the Jenkins awards
  • Nomination process for Jenkins awards
  • Voting process for Jenkins awards
  • Announcement of Jenkins awards

• Attribution request for downloads page from JFrog

  • Basil has submitted a draft pull request for a sponsors page
    • Proposes multiple levels
      • Original proposal
        • Anchor
        • Premier
        • Partner
        • Supporter
        • Associate
        • Mirror
      • Alternate proposal (Olympic medals + 2 extra)
        • Anchor
        • Gold
        • Silver
        • Bronze
        • Mirror
  • Links from the downloads page do not use https://repo.jenkins-ci.org
  • Good to highlight our sponsors (like JFrog) in multiple ways
  • Proposed to list sponsors at the end of the downloads page similar to the end of the root page
    • Include links to a description of the architecture used to distribute Jenkins core and Jenkins plugins

• AWS credits donation request - Mark Waite

  • Jenkins project has requested a donation from AWS
    • Confirmed in December that request was received
    • Answer expected by end of January, 2024