June 12, 2023

[Mark Waite]

The Jenkins governance board meets today at 6:00 PM UTC.  Zoom URL is https://zoom.us/j/91564716663?pwd=R3A2RDFGcU1wTVdoVTErYm1jNzVWdz09 

Agenda:

• News

  • Jenkins 2.401.2 release candidate this Wednesday
    

    • Changes include:

      • Operating system end of life administrative monitor (see the blog post and community forum topic)

      • Guice upgrade from 5.1.0 to 6.0.0)

      • Others under discussion

  • Debian 12 “bookworm” released June 10, 2023, does not offer Java 11 as a Debian package

    • Documentation update in progress to document Java 17 install by default instead of Java 11

    • Container images unaffected - we deliver Eclipse Temurin 11

  • CDF Technical Oversight Committee election is in progress

    • Mark Waite nominated from the Jenkins project

    • 4 seats on the committee, 6 candidates

    • Please cast your ballot (email invitations sent to those eligible to vote)

• Action Items

  • EasyCLA to be documented by Oleg

    • No progress, no requests pending, pick it up if there are CLA submissions

  • Mark Waite submit jenkins.io pull request to combine subprojects and SIGs into a single concept - “working groups”

    • Roadmap update pull requests

    • More pull requests needed

  • Retire the Chinese Jenkins site

    • Chinese site link removed from www.jenkins.io header

    • Kevin Martens (Docs Officer) tracking help desk ticket to replace the Chinese pages with redirects to the English pages

      • Need a redirect from https://www.jenkins.io/zh/ to https://www.jenkins.io/

  • Mark Waite archive the governance meeting notes to a GitHub repository, use the Google doc as the working document, then publish final notes

    • Gavin has prepared the archive, need a destination repository

    • See the infra help desk ticket tracking the discussion

    • Will use jenkins-infra as the location

      • Accept that we’ll place them in jenkins-infra as recommended in the help desk ticket

  • Mark Waite retrospective on signing certificate renewal process and its improvements

    • Not yet collected the details of the retrospective, still to be done

    • Code signing certificate for MSI and WAR files

    • PGP signing key for RPM and DEB files

      • Debian key packaging improvements (some other projects use that technique now)

    • Notification and process improvements

      • Reimbursement improvements

  • Mark Waite complete the reimbursement process for code signing certificate ($1536.00 USD)

    • Done, funds received by Mark Waite

• Mark Waite submit Linux Foundation ticket to upgrade from Jira 8 to Jira 9

  • Done - IT-25544 submitted to the Linux Foundation

    • Johnson Nguyen asked 30 May 2023 if we had a specific timeline in mind

      • Mark replied we need to be running on Jira 9 before the end of support for Jira 8, flexible other than that

• Budget and expenses

  • Wadeck Follonier approved for $52.99 expense last year

    • Reimbursement not yet complete, but expected to reach Wadeck’s bank within next 1-2 weeks

• Community activity

  • Artifactory bandwidth reduction project https://repo.jenkins-ci.org 

    • Artifactory used 20 TB less bandwidth in April than in previous months

    • Artifact caching proxy has reduced Jenkins project artifact bandwidth use

    • Brownout summary due from Mark Waite

  • Prototype.js removal blog post guides new contributors

    • Prototype.js removal epic making excellent progress

    • Plugin progress visible in the tracking sheet

    • Pull requests submitted for most popular plugins

    • Feature flag available to disable prototype in Jenkins core 2.406 and later

  • HTMLUnit 3 upgrades proceeding through test harness, core 2.409, tools, plugin pom 4.66, plugin bom 2163, and 150+ plugin pull requests

    • Thanks to Tim Jacomb and Basil Crow, see Tim’s replacement script

  • Guava 32.0 upgrade surprise and success story

    • Upgrade to 32.0 in Jenkins 2.406 surprised with compatibility break for Windows users of Artifactory and Checkmarx plugins (JENKINS-71375)

    • Fixed in Guava 32.0.1 for Jenkins 2.410 (tomorrow), thanks to Basil Crow and the Guava development team

  • 4 Google Summer of Code projects approved and started

    • Thanks to Jean-Marc Meessen, Kris Stern, Alyssa Tong, and Bruno Verachten

  • Early end of life for CentOS 7 in the Jenkins project - Nov 2023

    • CentOS 7 end of life June 30, 2024 by CentOS project

    • CentOS 7 container images unmaintained since Nov 2020

    • Jenkins RPM installer does not support CentOS 7

    • Outdated tools on CentOS 7 make ongoing support painful

  • Launchable experiments running in Jenkins

    • Data collection has been running for more than a month

    • Next steps

      • Enable for Windows tests in Jenkins core (reduce 4 hour runtime)

      • Add Launchable subset to acceptance test harness (ATH)

      • Launchable in BOM will wait for core and ATH

    • Benefits to developers

      • Reduce cost of BOM builds

      • Reduce number of Windows tests in Jenkins core

      • Run ATH subsets as part of core builds

        • Reduce ATH costs by running a subset of tests

    • Launchable support is providing feedback as well