12 Jan 2026 - HackMD

# 12 Jan 2026 [:movie_camera: Zoom Meeting Room](https://zoom.us/j/91564716663?pwd=R3A2RDFGcU1wTVdoVTErYm1jNzVWdz09) | [:calendar: Shared Calendar](https://jenkins.io/event-calendar/) | [:notes: Meeting notes](https://community.jenkins.io/tag/governance) | ## Attendees 👥  * @slide_o_mix (Alex Earl) * @strangelookingnerd (Daniel Krämer) * @jonesbusy (Valentin Delaye) * @NotMyFault (Alexander Brandes) * @basil (Basil Crow)   ## Upcoming Calendar 📆 * Next weekly release: 2.545 Tuesday January 13, 2026 - security release * Next LTS: 2.541.1 * Contributor summit January 30, 2026 ## Agenda ### News * [Jenkins Election 2025](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2025/08/08/board-officer-election-announcement/) has finished * Alex Earl leading the elections committee, following the election process * Alex will create a blog post to announce the results * Alex will prepare a retrospective for discussion with the board * Onboarding and training the new members * Daniel Krämer - Board * Kris Stern - Docs - Mark and Kevin will train (shadow Kevin) * Stefan Spieker - Events (needs time with Alyssa and Bruno, Advocacy meeting) * New board members: * Basil Crow * Daniel Krämer * New officers: * Documentation - Kris Stern * Events - Stefan Spieker * Release - Tim Jacomb * Infrastructure - Damien Duportal * Security - Wadeck Follonier * [Jenkins Bug Bounty](https://yeswehack.com/programs/jenkins-bug-bounty-program) * [LinkedIn announcement](https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7403697867586179073/) * A blog post is coming soon ### Action Items * [ ] Basil create the attribution entries for the downloads page * Continues on the to-do list [draft PR](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/jenkins.io/pull/6882) * [ ] Mark Waite propose further definition of sponsorship tiers * [ ] Alex Earl request transfer of Jenkins DNS ownership (jenkins.io and jenkins-ci.org) from R. Tyler Croy to the Linux Foundation ### Community activity * Jira to GitHub transition for Jenkins core components * Tim Jacomb migrated Jenkins core issues to GitHub as described to the [Jenkins developer mailing list](https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-dev/c/GUFCfBM1j_4/m/z6QzE6XGAQAJ) * More details are in [Jenkins Enhancement Proposal 238](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jep/tree/master/jep/238) * Issues for many plugins are also migrating to GitHub issues * [Repository permissions updater pull requests](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/repository-permissions-updater/pulls?q=is%3Apr+Migrate+plugin+issues+to+GitHub) show the progress * Java 25 support * [Jenkins core 2.534](https://www.jenkins.io/changelog/2.534/) supports Java 25 * 90% of top 250 non-deprecated Jenkins plugins are already testing with Java 25 * [6 pull requests](https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Apr+author%3AMarkEWaite+archived%3Afalse+Test+with+Java+25) in progress to test more plugins with Java 25 * What is the timeline for support? * Java 25 supported in Jenkins weekly October 28, 2025 * Java 25 supported in Jenkins LTS January 21, 2026 * No timeline set for plugins, though we'd love to see 90% of the most popular 250 plugins testing with Java 25 by January 7, 2026 ### Governance Topics * Jenkins Contributor Summit 2026 - Mark Waite * 30 Jan 2026 * Table confirmed at FOSDEM, need volunteers to staff the table * Alyssa Tong has confirmed the venue with Beta Cowork - $250 fee to reserve the room * Expense approved by the Board * Using spreadsheet to prioritize attendees and their reimbursements * [Spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1F1z4iirZVSCagE0d6JZ5wbZ8Iz0uSHBmkjjExlsg6OI/edit?usp=sharing) with proposed attendees * Board members prioritized the attendees * Reimbursements from the Jenkins CrowdFunding site, payment approval by board, payment processing by Alex Brandes * Funding travel (~16000$ for 15 people) * JFrog artifact reduction project ([infra issue 4533](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/4533)) - Mark Waite * OpenSSF [Joint Statement on Sustainable Stewardship](https://openssf.org/blog/2025/09/23/open-infrastructure-is-not-free-a-joint-statement-on-sustainable-stewardship/) * Continuous Delivery Foundation is a signatory of the joint statement * Darin Pope keeps our storage less then 2 TB * Bandwidth reductions are still needed * Some progress with high volume consumers * AWS abuse report is progressing slowly on the top 3 consumers * Jenkins project use has further reduced bandwidth use * Still areas to improve (weekly generation of extensions list) * JFrog sponsorship allows not more than 10 TB monthly bandwidth, we are now at 15-20 TB monthly * Bandwidth results * September: 19 TB * October: 17 TB * November: 16 TB * JFrog billing logs analyzed daily by Darin Pope scripts * Mark Waite reviews logs occasionally, seeks consumers we can reduce * Reductions will not be enough to drop below the JFrog 10 TB per month threshold * Something more significant will be required * Require authentication? * Limit bandwidth over a time period? * Other alternatives? * Self-host an instance? * Infrastructure changes are expected * Limited responses from a few companies * Likely will block IP addresses of largest consumers for 2 days * Identify remaining large scale consumers by refusing them for 2 days * More conversations with those large scale consumers * Have done some work on our side to reduce the usage on our agents * Usage has gone down 20-30% since the work started * Currently don't see a path getting down that low with organic improvements * Still an ongoing conversation with JFrog * Next steps are to do some brown outs and block some IP addresses to see who complains * This will allow us to find out who the top users are and communicate with them to reduce their usage * In a holding pattern to determine next steps * Waiting on JFrog for some feedback on what they want to do next * Cloud expenses and plans * Current situation (see recent notes from [Infrastructure Meeting](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/documentation/blob/main/meetings/2025-11-04.md#cloud-budgets)) * Meeting lead review infra notes to assure we are not exceeding budget * CDF Membership Sales - Mark Waite * Linux Foundation sales team has agreed to include CDF in their sales process * [Blog](https://cd.foundation/blog/2025/10/09/why-be-open-source-member/) posted 9 Sep 2025 * [Video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7h6nBhRKpk) panel with * Gerard McMahon * Dadisi Sanyika * Melissa McKay * Mark Waite * Lori Lorusso * Jenkins project needs CDF to continue strong and growing * Encourage companies to become CDF members * Must be a Linux Foundation member in order to be a CDF member * Rotating who leads the meeting * Alex Brandes - Dec 2025 * Alex Earl - Jan 2026 * Valentin Delaye - Feb 2026 * Basil Crow - Mar 2026 * Daniel Krämer - Apr 2026