Jenkins 2024 Community Award Winners

cdCon 2024 just wrapped up in Seattle and this included announcing the winners of the Continuous Delivery Foundation and Jenkins Community Awards. The CD Foundation provides awards for the Top CDF ambassador, contributor, documenter, and end user. Anyone that is part of the CD Foundation can be nominated for these. Additionally, as a graduated project, Read more about Jenkins 2024 Community Award Winners[…]

GSoC 2024 contributor application ended. What happens next?

The Google Summer of Code 2024 contributor application period has ended, and we are excited to have received several more than 75 valid applications from potential contributors interested in contributing to Jenkins via this program. We are grateful to all the students who applied and look forward to reviewing their applications over the next few Read more about GSoC 2024 contributor application ended. What happens next?[…]

Jenkins Contributor Summit and FOSDEM Recap

The previous in-person Jenkins Contributor Summit took place in 2020, just prior to the lockdowns and precautions that would change the world. Thankfully, on February 2, 2024, just prior to this year’s FOSDEM conference, we were able to gather again, in Brussels, so that we could have an in-person Jenkins Contributor Summit. The return to Read more about Jenkins Contributor Summit and FOSDEM Recap[…]

Google Summer of Code 2024… Here We Come!

We are thrilled to announce that Jenkins has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2024! This will be Jenkins’ eighth year as a mentoring organization. Congratulations to all 195 accepted open-source organizations! As a mentoring organization for the past seven years, Jenkins has mentored 35 GSoC students by 85+ different mentors, bringing together over Read more about Google Summer of Code 2024… Here We Come![…]

Collaboration is Key – Making the Open-Source Community Safer for Developers

Who is Sonar? Sonar is a code quality and security tool that helps developers write Clean Code. Sonar analyzes code for issues that lead to unreliable, unmaintainable, and insecure software at two points in the development lifecycle – first, when the developer initially writes code in the IDE with SonarLint and, again, as part of Read more about Collaboration is Key – Making the Open-Source Community Safer for Developers[…]

Jenkins 2023 Recap

Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier The Jenkins Security team has multiple missions, with the most visible to users being the publication of advisories. In 2023, the team published 17 advisories: 4 included Jenkins core, and 13 were solely about plugins. In total, 211 vulnerabilities were announced. In terms of reporting trends, we have seen an increase Read more about Jenkins 2023 Recap[…]

2024 Jenkins Contributor Summit – Update

The Jenkins Contributor Summit, being held in Brussels on February 2nd, is now quickly approaching. We are looking forward to meeting you. If you plan to join us and didn’t let us know yet, don’t forget to register by dropping us a note. The list of registered attendees can be found in this document: Contributor Read more about 2024 Jenkins Contributor Summit – Update[…]

Jenkins November 2023 Newsletter

Key Takeaways Basil Crow joins the Jenkins Governance Board. A Jenkins Contributor Summit will be held prior to FOSDEM. The Contributor Spotlight site is now live. Contributed by: Mark Waite Basil Crow joins the Jenkins governance board in December 2023. He’ll serve for a two-year term. Thanks to Basil for his willingness to serve. More Read more about Jenkins November 2023 Newsletter[…]

[Google Summer of Code 2024] A Call for Mentors

We are happy to announce that Jenkins is preparing to participate in its eighth (8th) year in Google Summer of Code (GSoC). What is Google Summer of Code? Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global, online mentoring program focused on introducing new contributors to open-source software development. GSoC contributors work on a 10-22 weeks-long Read more about [Google Summer of Code 2024] A Call for Mentors[…]

Welcome Basil Crow – new Jenkins Governance Board member

We would like to announce changes in the Jenkins Governance Board. There has been no election this year, because there was only one candidate per seat. Please welcome Basil Crow! At the same time, Oleg Nenashev retires from the board. We would like to thank Oleg for his contributions to the Jenkins project and the Read more about Welcome Basil Crow – new Jenkins Governance Board member[…]