On behalf of the Jenkins GSoC org team,
I am happy to announce that this year, for the first time, the Jenkins projects will be participating in
Google Summer of Code 2021
as part of the
Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) GSoC organization.
We’re very excited to have the Jenkins project participate in GSoC as part the CDF mentoring organisation along with
fellow CDF projects such as Ortelius, Screwdriver, Spinnaker, and Tekton. We believe that being part of the CDF
GSoC org will create an environment for students with even more mentoring channels, potential cross-fertilization of ideas,
and an even greater community of DevOps practitioners to join!
What’s next?
GSoC is officially announced, and please expect more students to contact projects in our
Gitter channels and mailing lists.
Many communications will also happen in SIG and sub-project channels.
Also, please join the gsoc channel on the CDF Slack.
We will be working hard in order to help students to find interesting projects, to explore the area,
and to prepare their project proposals before the deadline on April 13th.
Then we will process the applications, select projects and assign mentor teams.
All information about the Jenkins GSoC is available on its sub-project page.
I am a student. How do I apply?
See the Information for students page for full application guidelines.
We encourage interested students to reach out to the Jenkins community early and to start exploring project ideas.
All project ideas have chats and mailing lists referenced on their pages.
We will be also organizing office hours for students,
and you can use these meetings to meet org admins and mentors and to ask questions.
Also, join our Gitter channel and the
mailing list
to receive information about such incoming events in the project.
The application period starts on March 29th, but you can prepare now!
Use the time before the application period to discuss and improve your project proposals.
We also recommend that you become familiar with Jenkins and start exploring your proposal areas.
Project ideas include quick-start guidelines and reference newbie-friendly issues
which may help with initial study.
If you do not see anything interesting,
you can propose your own project idea
or check out ideas proposed by other CDF organizations
participating in GSoC.
I want to be a mentor. Is it too late?
It’s not!
We are looking for more project ideas and for Jenkins contributors/users
who are passionate about Jenkins and want to mentor students.
No hardcore experience required, mentors can study the project internals together with students and technical advisors.
We are especially interested in ideas beyond the Java stack, and in ideas focusing new technologies and areas
(e.g. Kubernetes, IoT, Python, Go, whatever).
You can either propose a new project idea or join an existing one.
See the Call for Mentors post
and Information for mentors for details.
If you want to propose a new project,
please do so as soon as possible so that students have time to explore them and to prepare their proposals.
This year mentorship does NOT require strong expertise in Jenkins development.
The objective is to guide students and to get involved into the Jenkins community.
GSoC org admins will help to find advisers if special expertise is required.
Important dates
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Apr 13 – deadline for student applications
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May 17 – accepted projects announced, teams start community bonding and coding
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Aug 16 – coding period ends
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Aug 31 – Results announced
See the GSoC Timeline for more info.
Originally posted on Jenkins Blog
Author: marckk