GSoC 2019 Project Ideas

This page aggregates project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2019. See more information about this project and applications on the Jenkins Google Summer of Code page .

Below you can find project ideas which have been proposed by potential mentors for this year. Other ideas may be proposed by interested mentors and students (e.g. new features in the core, "write a plugin for MY_TOOL_OR_SERVICE", etc.). Such project applications will be considered though applicants may need to work with the community and GSoC org admins to find potential mentors. More info: proposing project ideas .

Project	Category	Skills to study/improve
Advanced Build Discard Strategy Plugin Improve the existing Discard old builds feature with an Advanced Build Discarder Strategy plugin. Potential Mentor(s): Martin d'Anjou Arnab Banerjee	Plugins	Java
Artifact Promotion plugin for Jenkins Pipeline Create a new highly anticipated engine for managing promotions in Jenkins Pipeline, with modern UIs and REST APIs. Potential Mentor(s): Claus Schneider Oleg Nenashev Jon Brohauge	Plugins	Java, JavaScript, REST API
Artifactory REST Plugin Create a new plugin to give Jenkins users the ability to make REST API calls to Artifactory natively. Potential Mentor(s): Martin d'Anjou Christopher Dancy	Plugin	Java, REST API, Artifactory, Jenkins Pipeline
Improvements to the Jenkins Acceptance Test Harness Improve performance of the framework for WebUI and Integration testing. Potential Mentor(s): Martin d'Anjou Oliver Gondža Ramon Leon	Dev Tools	Java, Docker, Selenium
Automatic Specification Generator for Jenkins REST API Find and implement the extraction of the REST APIs from the sources and generate and publish the REST APIs respective documentation. Potential Mentor(s): Martin d'Anjou Kristin Whetstone Oleg Nenashev Supun Wanniarachchi	Plugins	Java, REST API, OpenAPI / Swagger
Bitbucket REST Plugin Create a new plugin to give Jenkins users the ability to make REST API calls to Bitbucket natively. Potential Mentor(s): Martin d'Anjou Christopher Dancy Shenyu Zheng	Plugin	Java, REST API, Bitbucket, Jenkins Pipeline
Code Coverage API Plugin Improvements Improve the new Jenkins Code Coverage API plugin and enhance its performance and extensibility. Potential Mentor(s): Shenyu Zheng Jeff Pearce	Plugins	Java, JavaScript, Coverage
Configuration as Code Plugin Compatibility Update Jenkins plugins to make them compatible with the emerging Configuration-as-Code plugin which allows configuring Jenkins with YAML. Potential Mentor(s): Ewelina Wilkosz Oleg Nenashev Tim Jacomb Jon Brohauge Martin d'Anjou	Plugins	Java, YAML, Configuration Management
Polling Docker Registries for Image Changes Create a new Jenkins plugin to automate polling of image changes and security scans. Potential Mentor(s): Andrey Falko Justin Harringa Ankit Jain	Plugins	Java, Docker
EDA Coverage Adapters Create Jenkins plugins for various Electronic Design Automation coverage reports. Potential Mentor(s): Martin d'Anjou Oleg Nenashev Udara De Silva Shenyu Zheng	Plugins	Java, EDA Tools, FPGA, ASIC, Coverage
Plugin(s) for Electronic Design Automation tools Create a new Jenkins plugin for one of widely used EDA tools. Potential Mentor(s): Martin d'Anjou Oleg Nenashev	Plugins	Java, EDA Tools
Cloud Features for External Workspace Manager Plugin Add support of provisioning workspaces from cloud services. Potential Mentor(s): Martin d'Anjou Patrick Hynes Pham Vu Tuan 赵晓杰(Rick) Alexandru Somai	Plugins	Java, Cloud-based storage (e.g. Amazon EFS)
External Fingerprint Storage for Jenkins Extend Jenkins to support storing artifact usage history in external databases. Potential Mentor(s): Oleg Nenashev Pham Vu Tuan Mike Long	Core	Java, Databases (PostgreSQL/Elasticsearch), REST API, JavaScript
Freestyle job to Pipeline job converter Offer new plugins and tools to simplify migration from Freestyle projects to the new Pipeline job type. Potential Mentor(s): Craig Rodrigues Martin d'Anjou	Plugins	Java, XML, Python, Groovy, Jenkins Pipeline
Multi-branch Pipeline support for Gitlab SCM Add Multi-branch Pipeline support for Gitlab SCM private and SaaS instances so that Jenkins can automatically build branches and pull requests with Jenkinsfile. Potential Mentor(s): 赵晓杰(Rick) Jeff Pearce Joseph Petersen	Plugin	Java, Gitlab SCM
Jenkins REST Plugin Create a new plugin to give Jenkins users the ability to make calls to other Jenkins instances via their REST API. Potential Mentor(s): Martin d'Anjou Christopher Dancy	Plugin	Java, REST API, Jenkins Pipeline
Jenkins and Machine Learning Plugins for Data Science Create a new plugin for integrating Jenkins with one of Machine Learning tools (e.g. Jupyter Python, TensorBoard, or Sacred). Potential Mentor(s): Martin Holeček Denis Joubert Ioannis Moutsatsos Bruno P. Kinoshita Marky Jackson	Plugins	Java, Python, Machine Learning & Tools, Jenkins Pipeline, Data Science
Pipeline Step Documentation Generator improvements Enhance the Jenkins Pipeline documentation generator to produce better documentation for thousands of Pipeline developers. Potential Mentor(s): Martin d'Anjou Kristin Whetstone	Dev Tools	Java, Jenkins Pipeline, HTML, CSS, Asciidoc, JavaScript
Plugin Installation Manager CLI Tool / Library Create a new tool to unify plugin management across the Jenkins ecosystem . Potential Mentor(s): Oleg Nenashev Baptiste Mathus	Tools	Java, Maven, Go, Dependency Management, Docker, Configuration-as-code
Jenkins Remoting Monitoring Support monitoring of Jenkins remoting networking with open source monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, etc.. Potential Mentor(s): Pham Vu Tuan Oleg Nenashev Supun Wanniarachchi Jeff Thompson 赵晓杰(Rick) Ankit Jain	Plugins, Core	Java, Networking, Docker, Prometheus/Grafana/etc.
Remoting over Apache Kafka. Docker/K8s Features Enhance the plugin and to provide out-of-the box management in Docker and especially Kubernetes environments. Potential Mentor(s): Pham Vu Tuan Oleg Nenashev Andrey Falko Supun Wanniarachchi Jeff Thompson Jeff Pearce	Plugins, Core	Java, Apache Kafka, Docker, Kubernetes
Role Strategy Plugin performance Improve performance of one of the most popular authorization plugins in Jenkins. Potential Mentor(s): Oleg Nenashev 夏润泽(RunZe Xia) Pham Vu Tuan	Plugins	Java, Performance Testing
Role Strategy Plugin: user experience Improve UI and REST APIs using new technologies to make it more user-friendly. Potential Mentor(s): Oleg Nenashev Supun Wanniarachchi 夏润泽(RunZe Xia)	Plugins	Java, JavaScript, REST/GraphQL
Jenkins Windows Services: YAML Configuration Support Enhance Jenkins controller and agent service management on Windows by offering new configuration file formats and improving settings validation. Potential Mentor(s): Oleg Nenashev Arnab Banerjee	Core, Tools	C#, .NET, Windows, Windows Services, YAML, Java (optional)
Working Hours Plugin - UI Improvements Rewrite Working Hours plugin UI in React, providing much needed usability Improvements. Potential Mentor(s): Jeff Pearce	Plugins	Java, JavaScript, React

Draft project ideas

Below you can see draft project ideas, which are currently under review. The scope of such ideas may change significantly during the discussions until the first coding period starts. You are welcome to comment on the draft and to join the project as a mentor. If you are a student, it is also fine to apply to the draft project ideas.

Project	Category	Skills to study/improve