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  Jenkins in Google Summer of Code Midterm Recap

  The Jenkins in GSoC program recently reached its midterm milestone for GSoC 2023. This milestone served to assess performance, and precipitate pass/fail decisions. Taking time to evaluate the progress and workflow of the project provides an opportunity to correct course and address underlying issues. Earlier this month, on the Jenkins Online Meetup, GSoC contributors presented midterm status and progress for their projects, below...

  

  Ashutosh Saxena

  

  Harsh Pratap Singh

  

  Jagruti Tiwari

  

  Vandit Singh July 22, 2023
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  Third Party Repository Detection Probe

  Introduction A third-party repository is a repository that is not hosted at https://repo.jenkins-ci.org/. The Jenkins Infra team was concerned about the dependencies used by third-party repositories. These repositories are a concern, not just for security reasons, but also for reliability. The third-party repository detection probe ensures that plugins are built only from trusted and reliable Maven repositories. Importance of the probe This probe was requested by...

  

  Jagruti Tiwari July 20, 2023
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  Unreleased Production Changes Probe

  Introduction A bug fix, security fix, or new features are of no use unless they are released. A production release not only provides users with an updated plugin, but also gives the developers a chance to get feedback on their work. The "unreleased production changes" probe looks for unreleased commits in the production files. If an unreleased file is found in the production path,...

  

  Jagruti Tiwari July 16, 2023
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  Security Scan Probe

  Introduction The Jenkins Security team offers a GitHub action that automatically scans the plugin source code during Continuous Integration and reports security issues. The Jenkins community considers using such tools to ensure a high-security level for plugins as a good practice. The Security Scan probe identifies whether the plugin is configured to execute the security action. Importance of the Probe This probe is essential from...

  

  Jagruti Tiwari July 16, 2023
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  Introducing Ashutosh Saxena as the GSoC 2023 Contributor Working on Docker Based Jenkins Quickstart Examples

  Hello, Jenkins community! I am really excited to be a GSoC 2023 contributor for Docker-based Jenkins quickstart examples project. In this blog post, I will take you through the details of the project in the following: Project Description The Docker-based Jenkins Quickstart Examples project aims to provide a quick and easy way for users to get started with Jenkins using Docker. By providing...

  

  Ashutosh Saxena May 26, 2023
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  Introducing Jagruti Tiwari as the GSoC 2023 Contributor Working on Adding Probes to Plugin Health Scoring System

  Background I started contributing to open-source projects in Jan 2022. I tried setting up well-known projects like Django, Brave browser, and Chromium but failed miserably. I didn’t know that open source is not about projects but about community. Gradually I stumbled upon freeCodeCamp. That’s where I wrote my first test case and fixed minor bugs. I gained the confidence to continue...

  

  Jagruti Tiwari May 22, 2023
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  Introducing Harsh Pratap Singh as the GSoC 2023 Contributor working on GitLab Plugin Modernization

  This is Harsh Pratap Singh, an Open source enthusiast, who is currently in his freshman year exploring different technologies related to DevSecOps and Blockchain. I am curious and passionate about automation thus Jenkins is my goto Open Source organization for Google Summer of Code. This is my first time contributing to Open Source and I am already loving it. I am fortunate enough...

  

  Harsh Pratap Singh May 18, 2023
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  Introducing Vandit Singh as the GSoC 2023 Contributor Working on Building Jenkins.io with Alternative Tools

  Dear Jenkins Community, I am thrilled to have this opportunity to introduce myself as the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2023 contributor who will be working on the exciting project of "Building jenkins.io with alternative tools". I am genuinely excited to join this vibrant community and contribute to the development of Jenkins, a widely adopted and powerful automation server. Project Description/Motivation: The project I...

  

  Vandit Singh May 17, 2023
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  Welcome Google Summer of Code 2023 Contributors!

  On behalf of the Jenkins GSoC org admin team and mentors, we would like to welcome Harsh Pratap Singh, Jagruti Tiwari, Vandit Singh, and Ashutosh Saxena. 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: GitLab Plugin modernisation - Cleaning and modernizing the extensively used GitLab plugin. Contributor: Harsh Pratap Singh from...

  

  Alyssa Tong

  

  Jean-Marc Meessen May 4, 2023