I was fortunate enough to participate in the Google Summer of Code 2019 as a mentor and org admin. This was great and I wanted to share in hopes of encouraging more people to join. You can learn more about the Google Summer of Code here: https://jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/ Community Bonding The first phase of the project is the community bonding phase. This is where the student and other mentors...

Once again, Hacktoberfest is back! During this October event, everyone can support open-source by contributing changes, and can earn limited edition swag. We invite you to contribute to Jenkins, regardless of your experience and background. You can write code, improve documentation and design, localize Jenkins or create new artwork. Any GitHub pull request counts! Quick start Sign-up to Hacktoberfest on the event website. Join our Gitter channel. Everything is set, just start...

This is a repost of the original announcement made by Kohsuke Kawaguchi in the Jenkins Developer mailing list. Minor changes were applied to reflect the posting date and to provide more links. Nominations for the 2019 Jenkins Board elections open for three governing board positions and five officer positions, namely: Security, Events, Release, Infrastructure and Documentation. The terms of office for these positions are: Officer positions (1 year):...

Thanks to our Outreachy interns over the past year, I’m proud to announce the initial release of the Audit Log plugin for Jenkins. This plugin is the first major project completed related to Outreachy, and I’d like to give a brief overview of the functionality that was developed for this release. The primary goal of this plugin is to introduce an audit trail of various Jenkins...

Jenkins turns 15 years old! Jenkins World brings together DevOps thought leaders, IT executives, continuous delivery practitioners and the Jenkins community and ecosystem in one global event, providing attendees with the opportunity to learn, explore, network face-to-face and help shape the next evolution of Jenkins development and solutions for DevOps. There is also the Jenkins Contributor Summit in San Francisco. The Jenkins Contributor Summit is the place where current...

Last week I had the privilege of attending DevOps World - Jenkins World in San Francisco to present my Google Summer of Code project for plugin management. It was an amazing experience getting to meet people from all over world who are trying to make the development and release process easier and more efficient. I enjoyed learning more about industry tools, processes, and standards, and meeting CI/CD experts and...

Two months ago I published an introductory article on the journey of becoming a Jenkins contributor. In that first article, the jenkins.io site was reviewed, learning about the multiple ways in which we can participate and contribute. Then, a first—​basic—​contribution I made to the site repository was described. Now, in this new article we will be exploring more advanced contributions, committing code to the actual Jenkins core. Getting started...

The Audit Log Plugin for Jenkins is an in development project to integrate standardized audit logging trails to various core actions in Jenkins. This project integrates the recently released Apache Log4j Audit library to allow for a vast array of possible audit logging destinations and configuration. We began this plugin not long after Log4j Audit 1.0.0 was released last year by partnering with Outreachy where we...

We’re pleased to announce the formation of the Jenkins Documentation Special Interest Group. The Docs SIG encourages contributors and external communities to create and review Jenkins documentation. See the Special Interest Group Overview for more details and plans. How can I help? The Jenkins Documentation SIG would love to have your help with: reviewing and fixing open bug reports reviewing Jenkins documentation pull requests reviewing Jenkins X documentation pull requests How can...

Since 2017, I started to do some contributions to the Jenkins community. As a beginner, translation might be the easiest way to help the project. You don’t need to understand the whole context, even to create a ticket in the issue tracker system. Improvement of localization usually is minor. But some problems occurred soon, there isn’t a native speaker of Chinese that could review my PRs. So,...