January 8, 2024 Governance Board Agenda

[Mark Waite]

Here is the draft agenda

Action Items

• Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page
  • Jenkins sponsors have changed
    • Red Hat is no longer a member of the Continuous Delivery Foundation. Remove from root page?
    • 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
• Mark Waite submit jenkins.io pull request to combine subprojects and SIGs into a single concept - “working groups”
  • Still no progress.
• Kevin Martens retire the Chinese Jenkins site
• License policy and phrasing changes
  • What license should be used for a library plugin? (Mailing list thread)
    • Soft recommendation has been merged to Jenkins plugin publishing documentation
    • If wrapper contains significant code, then use MIT license
    • If wrapper does not contain significant code, then use license of wrapped library

Community activity

• Artifactory bandwidth reduction project - Mark Waite

  • Results of production deployment
  • Weekend surprises with artifact caching proxy not responding
    • @NotMyFault reported issue-3890
    • @MarkEWaite reported issue-3889
  • Artifact caching proxies were reset earlier today

• 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

• Defaced issue reports - help desk 3851

  • Jira database restored from backup to Dec 6, 2023 state
    • Changes lost between Dec 6, 2023 and Dec 18, 2023
  • Linux Foundation ticket IT-26276 opened to request alternatives and their recommendation
    • Jenkins status page for Dec 18, 2023 restore

• 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

• Azure credits donation - Damien Duportal

  • Jenkins infrastructure help desk ticket is tracking progress
    • $1k of $40k consumed
    • Details visible in diagram
  • December Azure expenses were less than the CDF budgeted amount

• AWS credits donation request - Mark Waite

  • Jenkins project has requested a donation from AWS
    • Answer expected by end of January, 2024

[Gavin Mogan]

> Linux Foundation ticket IT-26276 opened to request alternatives and their recommendation

is that alternatives to locking it down?

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

• > Kevin Martens retire the Chinese Jenkins site

Is there blockers other than time? its been on the agenda for many many many months.

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[Basil Crow]

On Mon, Jan 8, 2024 at 11:48 AM 'Gavin Mogan' via Jenkins Developers
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> is that alternatives to locking it down?

Alternatives to restoring from backup. We ended up restoring from backup.

[Mark Waite]

On Monday, January 8, 2024 at 12:48:32 PM UTC-7 Gavin wrote:

• > Kevin Martens retire the Chinese Jenkins site

Is there blockers other than time? its been on the agenda for many many many months.

No, just my needing to spend the time to create an environment where I can test the changes before proposing pull requests,