The Jenkins board meeting starts at 7:00 PM UTC (about 6 hours from now).
Zoom link is
https://zoom.us/j/91564716663?pwd=R3A2RDFGcU1wTVdoVTErYm1jNzVWdz09
Here is the draft agenda:
Upcoming Calendar 📆
- Next LTS: 2.426.2, December 13, 2023
- Kris Stern is the release lead, backporting pull request
<https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/8721> submitted
- Release candidate delivered Wednesday November 29, 2023
- Next weekly release: 2.436
- Two week break in LTS schedule: 2.426.3, January 24, 2024 (6 weeks
after 2.426.2 instead of the usual 4 weeks)
- Refer to developer mailing list discussion
<https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/vfoiV7HAn94/m/ZHo9h6PSGQAJ>
for
details
- No break expected in weekly release schedules
- Next major events:
- FOSDEM 2024 - February 2-4, 2024
- Jenkins Contributor Summit Friday February 2, 2024
- Jean-Marc Meessen collecting agenda topics in community forum
<https://community.jenkins.io/t/jenkins-contributor-summit-on-feb-2-2024-call-for-topics-and-ideas/10689>
- FOSDEM conference Saturday and Sunday February 3-4, 2024
AgendaAction Items
- Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page
- Damien create issue to switch agent implementation to virtual machines
(*done*)
- Alexander Brandes and Ullrich Hafner run the officer and board
elections for 2023 (*done*)
- Timeline
- Blog post
<https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2023/12/08/basil-crow-board-announcement/>
- 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)
- Kevin has started his local Kubernetes development environment to
prototype the transition
- Mark still needs to start his local Kubernetes development
environment to prototype the transition
- Once prototyped, then Kevin and Mark meet with Damien Duportal to
review next steps
- Kevin Martens (Docs Officer) tracking help desk ticket
<https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/3379> 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
- Basil submitted a governance document pull request
<https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/6925> to accept
public domain licenses
- Board approval of the addition of public domain licenses to the
governance document
- Allows the public domain json library and others to be used
- 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
Community activity
-
Jenkins contributor spotlight <https://contributors.jenkins.io/> - Kevin
Martens
- Thanks to Kevin Martens, Kris Stern, Herve Le Meur, Cristina
Pizzagalli, and Alyssa Tong
- Source repository
<https://github.com/jenkins-infra/contributor-spotlight/>
- Upcoming contributors to be highlighted
- Alex Earl
<https://github.com/jenkins-infra/contributor-spotlight/pull/7> -
Dec 13, 2023
- Kris Stern
<https://github.com/jenkins-infra/contributor-spotlight/pull/44> -
Dec 27, 2023
- Ulli Hafner
<https://github.com/jenkins-infra/contributor-spotlight/pull/50>
-
Artifactory bandwidth reduction project - Mark Waite
- 20 TB of bandwidth used in November, 1/3 due to cached artifacts from
Apache Maven Central
- JFrog has asked that we remove the cached artifacts from the
Jenkins public virtual repository
- Artifactory brownout
<https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/Jn_4U-KQUqg/m/N5i6VH7_AAAJ>
last
Wednesday 6 Dec 2023
- Jenkins core build passed during brownout
- Repository permissions updater build failed during brownout due
to missing Atlassian Jira integration library
- Top 250 most popular plugin repositories checked during brownout
- 235 repositories built without issue
- Failures due to Atlassian Jira integration jar files missing
- Artifactory plugin
- Blue ocean plugin
- Configuration as code plugin
- Jira plugin
- Failures due to Atlassian Crowd2 jar files missing
- Configuration as code plugin (files removed from most
recent plugin release)
- Failures due to use of Gradle to build plugin
- Gradle plugin - rely on Gradle plugin maintainers to check
for compatibility
- Failures due to outdated tooling
- Docker build publish plugin
- Groovy postbuild plugin
- Job import plugin
- Pipeline AWS plugin
- Pipeline multibranch defaults plugin
- ssh plugin (also has open security vulnerabilities)
-
Java 11, 17, and 21 in Jenkins - Mark Waite
- 2+2+2 Java support plan - Jenkins enhancement proposal
<https://github.com/MarkEWaite/jep/tree/java-adoption-plan/jep/0000#java-11>
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
-
Board and officer elections - Ulli Hafner
- Final announcement
<https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2023/12/08/basil-crow-board-announcement/>
from
Alex and Ulli
- Basil Crow has been invited to
- “board” group on https://community.jenkins.io/g/jenkins-board
- “board” team in the jenkinsci organisation
<https://github.com/orgs/jenkinsci/teams/board>
- “board” team in the jenkins-infra organisation
<https://github.com/orgs/jenkins-infra/teams/board>
- "board" mailing list
<https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-board/pending-members> (pending
acceptance)
- Oleg has been removed from
- “board” group on https://community.jenkins.io/g/jenkins-board
- “board” team in the jenkinsci organisation
<https://github.com/orgs/jenkinsci/teams/board>
- “board” team in the jenkins-infra organisation
<https://github.com/orgs/jenkins-infra/teams/board>
- "board" mailing list
<https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-board/pending-members>
-
Artifactory bandwidth reduction project
<https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues?q=is%3Aissue+is%3Aopen+label%3Aartifactory>
reopened
- Suspend distribution of Crowd 2 plugin
<https://plugins.jenkins.io/crowd2/> (due to closed source
dependencies)
- Issue report
<https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/3854>, announced
on plugin site <https://plugins.jenkins.io/crowd2/>, GitHub
repository <https://github.com/jenkinsci/crowd2-plugin> is
archived because Atlassian Crowd data center reaches end of support in
February 2024
- Email sent to Jenkins board and plugin maintainers confirms 2
maintainers know plugin distribution will be suspended
- Suspend distribution of Confluence publisher plugin (due to closed
source dependencies)
- Issue report
<https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/3856>
- Email sent to Jenkins board and the plugin maintainers telling
them of the plan to suspend distribution
-
Defaced issue reports - help desk 3851
<https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/3851>
- User "Sintayew" applied one or more bulk operations to over 900
Jenkins issues Dec 6, 2023
- User has been inactivated
- Bulk operations no longer allowed for standard users
- Recovery alternatives
- Restore from backup prior to Dec 6, 2023, lose all changes since
Dec 6, 2023
- Manually reverse the most obvious defacement, accept damage,
retain changes since Dec 6, 2023
- Linux Foundation ticket IT-26276
<https://jira.linuxfoundation.org/plugins/servlet/desk/portal/2/IT-26276>
opened
to request alternatives and their recommendation
-
Attribution request
<https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/issues/6861> for downloads
page from JFrog
- Basil has submitted a draft pull request
<https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/6882> 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
-
Social media posting status report
- Social media posting volume is less in the last two weeks than in the
previous two weeks
- Encourage contributors to propose technical social media items
to share
- Proposals to the advocacy and outreach chat channel
<https://app.gitter.im/#/room/#jenkinsci_advocacy-and-outreach-sig:gitter.im>
-
Azure credits donation - Mark Waite
- Jenkins infrastructure help desk ticket
<https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/3818> is tracking
progress
- Successfully used some donated credits in November, 2023
- Budget estimates shared with Continuous Delivery Foundation
- October and November Azure expenses were less than the CDF budgeted
amount
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