November 13, 2023 Governance Board Agenda

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Nov 13, 2023, 1:23:14 PM11/13/23
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The Jenkins board meeting starts at 7:00 PM UTC (about 40 minutes from now).  Zoom link is https://zoom.us/j/91564716663?pwd=R3A2RDFGcU1wTVdoVTErYm1jNzVWdz09 

Here is the draft agenda

News
Action Items
  • Alexander Brandes and Ullrich Hafner run the officer and board elections for 2023
    • 57 registered voters
    • Timeline
      • Nominations are closed (September 18 - October 27)
        • All roles have at least one nominee
          • If role is uncontested, then no need to vote
        • If candidates agree to accept the nomination and they are only nominee, then they are elected
      • Voter registration is closed (September 18 - November 05)
      • Voting (November 06 - December 1)
      • Results announcement (December 11)
  • Mark Waite submit jenkins.io pull request to combine subprojects and SIGs into a single concept - “working groups”
    • More pull requests needed
  • Retire the Chinese Jenkins site (Kevin Martens)
    • 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
      • Kevin working with the infrastructure team on the Helm charts implementing the Chinese site
  • Mark Waite draft a proposal to the board for license policy and phrasing changes
    • No further progress
    • Allow other licenses like the JSON license
    • Some other approach?
    • What license should be used for a library plugin?
      • License of the wrapped library (if wrapped library has no separate code, then seems likely)
      • MIT license as used by Jenkins plugins (if abstraction layer in the plugin, then MIT for ours?)
    • Review responses from other projects to license mixture (e.g. PyPI)
      • Mostly focuses on OSI approved licenses but include a separate category for other licenses
        • Have categories for freeware, public domain, and more
        • Reasonable precedent for allowing a wider range of licenses
        • Needs more discussion, but being more permissive is working for PyPI
        • Newer licenses may be more controversial
  • Mark Waite update the governance meeting GitHub repository with the latest meeting notes
Community activity

  • Intelligent test report experiment from Kohsuke Kawaguchi

    • Developer mailing list request seeking users to explore it
      • Kohsuke asks, “Would it be OK if I submit the necessary change in the CI pipeline & others to get this feature activated for Jenkins core?”

  • 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.)
        • Currently gathered in a block comment in Jenkins core
        • Making a Java version the recommended version
        • Dropping support for a Java version
        • Allow future release leads and other contributors to use the document
        • Further refinements to be done in the JEP
    • Summary of discussions
    • Key dates
      • Oct 3, 2023 - Java 11 end of life monitor visible in Jenkins weekly
      • Nov 15, 2023 - Java 11 end of life monitor visible in Jenkins LTS
      • 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

  • Hacktoberfest complete

Governance Topics

  • Board and officer elections - Alexander Brandes

    • Final announcement from Alex and Ulli

  • Social media posting guidelines or guidance?

    • Advocacy and outreach post from Jenkins Twitter and LinkedIn for U.S. Veteran’s Day
      • Good to have more traffic on the Jenkins social media accounts
      • Awkward to have a U.S. specific holiday that might be misinterpreted by those outside the U.S.
    • Alex Brandes receives GitHub Supply Chain Sentinel award from Jenkins Twitter and LinkedIn
      • Positive all around, no concerns

  • Processing the Azure credits donation - Damien Duportal

    • Create a new MSOP subscription to host ephemeral workloads and retain persistent workloads on existing “MCA” subscription

  • Donation of Oracle Cloud costs by CloudBees - Mark Waite

    • Still no progress from Oracle
    • Oracle Cloud account remains open until Oracle agrees all invoices are resolved
    • Total CloudBees donation - $1800 or less
    • Jenkins project expenses on Oracle Cloud $0.00 since 30 Sep 2023

  • Jenkins infrastructure costs overview - Damien Duportal

    • Current infrastructure costs
    • Cost reduction projects recently completed
    • Cost reduction projects in progress
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