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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
Google Summer of Code 2023… Here We Come!

We are thrilled to announce that Jenkins has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2023! This will be Jenkins' seventh year as a mentoring organization. Congratulations to all 172 accepted open-source organizations! As a mentoring organization for the past six years, Jenkins has mentored 31 GSoC students by 85+ different mentors, bringing together over 107 strangers for a common idea - Jenkins! At...

Alyssa Tong
Jean-Marc Meessen February 23, 2023
"On your marks, get set, ..."

In a couple of days, the Jenkins GSoC 2023 preparation will culminate with our official Organization Application. It is now time to shed some light on what is coming next. Since December 2022, we have actively prepared the Jenkins project for the 2023 edition of Google Summer of Code (GSoC). This entailed collecting and discussing project ideas, setting up a mentoring team, and...

Jean-Marc Meessen February 1, 2023
[GSoC] 'Tis the Season to Give the Gift of Mentorship

'Tis the season of gift giving and what better way than to give the gift of mentorship. Jenkins is a big supporter and contributor of programs like Google Summer of Code (GSoC), She Code Africa, and Outreachy. We believe in the value and advancements in helping new, and in many cases under-represented contributors to the open source. There is also a special 'je...

Alyssa Tong December 9, 2022
GSoC 2023: how to get prepared

We are happy to see a lot of questions on how to prepare efficiently to submit a powerful project submission. This is key to be selected and participate in the coming Google Summer of Code (GSoC). This blog post is addressed to those who ask these questions. First of all, welcome to the Jenkins Community! Thank you for your interest in Jenkins in general...

Jean-Marc Meessen November 23, 2022
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
Create iOS Unity build pipelines on AWS with Jenkins and EC2 Mac instances

Create iOS Unity build pipelines on AWS with Jenkins and EC2 Mac instances Every mobile game, whether it is a multiplayer or standalone game, must build binaries. Developers of high budget, high profile AAA and AA games tend to lean towards managing a build farm, whereas independent developers (indies) may rely on local or third-party solutions. Managing compute infrastructure is a time consuming and ongoing...

Sergey Kurson
Glenn Duncan September 14, 2022
Jenkins Contributor Summit 2022 Agenda - Orlando, Florida

We wanted to share the agenda to the Contributor Summit in Orlando, Florida - as it stands at the moment. Entry fee: No cost to attend. Sign up via the sign up sheet (room capacity: 30). Event is in person only. Location: Orlando World Center Marriott: 8701 World Center Dr, Orlando, FL 32821 (Room: Magnolia 19) Key dates: Sept 27 - Contributor Summit @ 9AM - 5PM Sept...

Alyssa Tong
Bruno Verachten September 13, 2022
Moving Jenkins to a New Frontier of Performance with Java 11 - DevOps World 2022

It’s 2022, and the Jenkins project is approaching 18 years old, boasts over 1,800 plugins and over 1 million users around the world, and is widely considered the most popular automation server in use today. The latest hurdle we’ve cleared was delivering Java 11 support, partially motivated by Oracle’s ending of public support for Java 8 back in March of 2022. Starting...

Ryan Smith August 31, 2022