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Google Summer of Code 2023 Call for Project Ideas and Mentors

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global, online mentoring program focused on introducing students and new contributors to open source software development. GSoC contributors work on a 10-22 weeks programming project with the guidance of mentors from their open source organization. During GSoC, participating contributors are paired with mentors from open source organizations, gaining exposure to real-world software development techniques. GSoC contributors...

Alyssa Tong
Jean-Marc Meessen
Kris Stern
Bruno Verachten November 16, 2022
Plugin Health Scoring System

The goal of this blog is to showcase the work done during the Google Summer of Code 2022 coding phases. For a detailed description of the project, please see the project page. Overview About Project Phase 1 Phase 2 Next Steps Acknowledgments Useful Links About Project Plugin maintenance is an extremely important phase of a plugin’s lifecycle. Jenkins is constantly developing, which raises the need for thousands of plugins to catch...

Dheeraj Singh Jodha October 10, 2022
Pipeline Steps Documentation Generator Improvements

About Pipeline Steps Documentation Generator Improvements is a project under Google Summer of Code 2022, and this project aims to improve the steps documentation generated for Pipeline jobs, which is used by thousands of Pipeline developers worldwide. Some initial parts of the project involved changes to the UI of the website. I spent most of the community bonding period thinking about possible improvements,...

Vihaan Thora October 10, 2022
A near Feature-complete version of Jenkinsfile Runner Actions as GitHub Actions

Abstract Jenkinsfile Runner Action for GitHub Actions aims at providing customized environments and useful GitHub Actions for the users. Therefore, users can execute the Jenkins pipeline in the GitHub Actions runners. It enables running Jenkins pipelines in a Function-as-a-Service context. Users can customize their environment by setting up base images, configuring the Jenkins Configuration-as-Code plugin, extending vanilla images or providing initial hooks for the temporary...

Yiming Gong September 7, 2022
Let the (GSoC) coding start !

The GSoC community bonding period just finished. The four Jenkins GSoC projects are now ready. Contact between contributors and mentors is established. Regular communication channels are setup (weekly project meetings and dedicated chat). Links to the project plans and plannings drafts are published on the project pages. Next step, the actual coding! Together with their mentors, Dheeraj, Ymming, Hrushikesh, and Vihaan will work the whole summer...

Jean-Marc Meessen June 13, 2022
Welcome Google Summer of Code 2022 Contributors!

On behalf of the Jenkins GSoC team and mentors, We would like to welcome Dheeraj Singh Jodha, Yiming Gong, Hrushikesh Rao, and Vihaan Thora. They will be working on Google Summer of Code projects in the Jenkins organization, and they have already done some contributions. This year we have the following projects: Plugin Health Scoring System - Provide a 'plugin health indicator' for plugin maintainers and Jenkins administrators. Contributor: Dheeraj Singh...

Alyssa Tong
Jean-Marc Meessen May 20, 2022
Google Summer of Code 2022… Here We Come!

We are thrilled to announce that Jenkins has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2022! This will be Jenkins' sixth year as a mentoring organization. Congratulations to all 203 accepted open source participating organizations! For the past 5 years as a mentoring organization, Jenkins boasts mentorship of 27 GSoC students by 80+ mentors, that’s bringing together over 107 strangers for a common idea - Jenkins. At...

Alyssa Tong
Jean-Marc Meessen March 8, 2022
Jenkins GSoC 2022: The Return of Students as Mentors

Since 2005, the Google Summer of Code program has connected 18,000+ new open source contributors from 112 countries with 17,000+ mentors from 118 countries. Google Summer of Code has produced over 40 million lines of code for 746 open source organizations. The Jenkins project has been a mentoring organization for five years, successfully mentored 27 GSoC students by ~80 mentors, not to mention countless...

Alyssa Tong February 16, 2022
Google Summer of Code 2022 Call for Project Ideas and Mentors

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global, online mentoring program focused on introducing new contributors to open source software development. GSoC contributors work on a 12+ week programming project with the guidance of mentors from their open source organization. During GSoC, participating contributors are paired with mentors from open source organizations, gaining exposure to real-world software development techniques. GSoC contributors will learn...

Alyssa Tong
Jean-Marc Meessen January 7, 2022