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) * @jonesbusy (Valentin Delaye) * @NotMyFault (Alexander Brandes) * @MarkEWaite (Mark Waite) * @strangelookingnerd (Daniel Krämer) * Stefan Spiekler   ## Upcoming Calendar 📆 * Next weekly release: 2.546 Tuesday January 13, 2026 * 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 * Onboarding and training the new members * Daniel Krämer - Board * Kris Stern - Docs - Mark has trained Kris, training continues * 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/) * [Blog Post](https://www.jenkins.io/blog/2025/12/10/jenkins-bug-bounty-program-yeswehack-european-commission/) ### 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 * [ ] Alex Earl create retrospective on elections * [ ] Alex Earl propose PR to remove JIRA option for plugin hosting ### Community activity * Jira to GitHub transition for Jenkins core components and many plugins * 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 weekly 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 * [261 pull requests merged](https://github.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+author%3AMarkEWaite+archived%3Afalse+is%3Amerged++Test+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 ### Governance Topics * Jenkins Contributor Summit 2026 - Mark Waite and Stefan Spieker * 30 Jan 2026 * Agenda proposal - Stefan Spieker * Slides were reviewed during governance meeting * Looking for some additional ideas for workshops * AI has made visible a problem we've had for a long time * New contributors are make preventable mistakes * Failing to do good testing and code review * Change governance document to make it clear that contributors are resposible for their contributions * "Raise the bar" on entry for contributions * Change compatibility statement to add some information * Maintainer time is more important than new contributor's time * Table confirmed at FOSDEM, Bruno Verachten, Stephane Merle will staff the table * Need more volunteers to staff the table * Valentin available the Saturday leaving Brussel on Sunday * 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 * Large increase in bandwidth use in Dec 2025 due to 1 AWS IP address (12 TB of requests) * Reported to JFrog in December, abuse seems to have stopped at end of Dec 2025 * 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 * No improvement after a month interaction with AWS Trust and Safety * AWS Ireland 3 IP addresses are still in the top 5 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 * 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)) * All cloud expenses are within budget as reviewed by Alex Earl (2026/01/12) * Rotating who leads the meeting * Valentin Delaye - Feb 2026 * Basil Crow - Mar 2026 * Daniel Krämer - Apr 2026 * Alex Brandes - May 2026 * Alex Earl - Jun 2026