8 Sep 2025 - HackMD

# 8 Sep 2025 [: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 👥   * @jonesbusy (Valentin Delaye) * @basil (Basil Crow) * @slide_o_mix (Alex Earl) * @NotMyFault (Alexander Brandes) * @kmartens27 (Kevin Martens) * @oleg-nenashev Oleg Nenashev * @poddingue Bruno Verachten ## Upcoming Calendar 📆 * Next weekly release: 2.527 Tuesday September 9, 2025 * Next LTS: 2.516.3 * No release lead yet * Release September 17, 2025 ## Agenda ### News * [Jenkins Election 2025](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2025/08/08/board-officer-election-announcement/) has started * Alex Earl leading the elections committee, following the election process * Register to vote by joining the [election voter 2025 group](https://community.jenkins.io/g/election-voter-2025) * Two board seats up for election (currently held by Mark Waite and Basil Crow) * Five officer seats up for election (Security, Events, Release, Infrastructure, and Documentation) * Nominate by sending a message to the [election committee](https://community.jenkins.io/g/election-committee) * Currently have nominations for all open positions, but would like more! ### 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 * [ ] Mark Waite request transfer of Jenkins DNS ownership (jenkins.io and jenkins-ci.org) from R. Tyler Croy to the Linux Foundation ### Community activity * [Community plugin maintainers proposal](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GEI7tQp3UxGCbQQyF1JdujgwkoWcMluvUMFanV2nDGo/edit?usp=sharing) for discussion in Jenkins developer mailing list * Java 25 will release in September 2025, Jenkins support will likely require a sweep across all the plugins * Beta test with Java 25 update project and a small team * Basil Crow, Mark Waite, Adrien Lecharpentier, Bruno Verachten, and Darin Pope * Proposed the team and the people on it and sent a proposal to the Developers list * The team is started to look at it and will go ahead full steam once the team is finalized. ### Governance Topics * [Jenkins Election 2025](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2025/08/08/board-officer-election-announcement/) status report - Alex Earl * Alex will send out email to Developers and Users about nominations and registering for elections. * Jenkins Contributor Summit 2026 * Friday before FOSDEM * Will be around 31st Jan and 1st Feb (not official announcement) * Alyssa Tong has confirmed the venue with Beta Cowork - $250 fee to reserve the room * Expense approved by the Board - Yes, approved * Mark Waite proposes we use a similar process as last year to prioritize attendees and their reimbursements * Spreadsheet with proposed attendees * Board members prioritize the attendees * Reimbursements from the Jenkins CrowdFunding site * Board approves this process * CDF Membership Drive in September and October * Being planned by CDF Governing Board * 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 * JFrog artifact storage reduction project ([infra issue 4533](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/4533)) * Darin Pope reduced our storage to less then 2 TB * Deleted obsolete, unused caches after backup has been created * JFrog sponsorship allows not more than 10 TB monthly bandwidth, we are typically 30 TB monthly * JFrog access logs have been collected for over a month, Basil Crow has analyzed the data * Basil's analysis of a month of logs does not show any major abusers * Largest users are being invited to reduce their use * 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 some 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 * Large percentage of bandwidth from a single AI company * Downloading every binary we had ever released * They honor a robots.txt file that shows how to block their download * JFrog is investigating that implementation now * Not sure where this stands at JFrog * 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 * Microsoft Azure sponsorship ends August 31, 2025 * $900 remaining in the donation * Transition will complete before donated funds are depleted ([help desk 4691](https://github.com/jenkins-infra/helpdesk/issues/4691)) * Azure CDF - Remaining: $32,154 for 2025: * August: $3,517 (forecast at ~6.5k :warning:, we can only afford 6.4k monthly until end of 2025) * Efforts around decreasing costs are paying off: forecast went from 6.8k last friday to 6.5k today. * DigitalOcean - Remaining $13,242.16 until January 02, 2026 * August: $140 (forecast at $240) * Slight increase due to a training VM (expected) * AWS: * CloudBees: * August: $399 (forecast at $658) * Recent checks show increased data outbound on pkg.origin.origin.io * Sponsored account ($89,470 credits lefts until 2027 => ~17 months remaining) * August: $3,776.28 (forecast at $6.0k :warning:) * EC2 plugin started to show “over-provisioning” behavior. WiP on fine tuning (GC orphaned, fallback to ondemand) to improve behavior * Basil mentions that these changes have been released * Having a lot of issues with no spot instances being available * Right now we are waiting for instances to be available * Need to determine if we want to do something else * Basil is working with Damien to try and figure out a good mix of spot and other to get things going a little faster * Software in the Public Interest (SPI) funds * Mark received 4 board approval votes to donate remainng SPI funds to OSUOSL * Donation still in progress with SPI, no issues reported * Jenkins contributor summit next year? * Use Jenkins funds from the CrowdFunding site * Opens * Oleg Nenashev * Mailing list item about common account for Gradle portal for Jenkins based items * Would like to have someone from the infrastructure team to determine next steps * Rotating who leads the meeting * Valentin Delaye - Oct * Basil Crow - Nov * Alex Brandes - Dec * Mark - Jan