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Congratulations to all Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2021 students! On behalf of the Jenkins org team, we would like to thank all participants: students, mentors, applicants, and dozens of other contributors who participated in GSoC this year. In 2021, the Jenkins project participated in GSoC as part of the Continuous Delivery Foundation’s GSoC mentor organisation. Within the CDF GSoC mentor organisation, we had six students working on projects: five projects focused on Jenkins and one project focused on Spinnaker. In GSoC, we focus on projects that solve problems important to end users and community members. This year’s GSoC projects delivered highly anticipated new features for Jenkins and Spinnaker. Google Summer of Code has been a successful and positive experience for students due to the active participation of the Jenkins community and the wider Continuous Delivery Foundation community. 🎉 All of the CDF GSoC students have successfully completed their projects! 🎉 This is the second year in a row that all Jenkins GSoC students have reached the final evaluation and successfully passed! This has been an extremely challenging year, and the amount of work and dedication that the students and their mentoring teams have put into GSoC has been phenomenal. Jenkins, Spinnaker, and the CDF are incredibly grateful to everyone who has contributed to GSoC 2021! ☀️ GSoC Students and their Projects Please see the individual project pages for more details on the projects and work undertaken. You can view student presentations during mid-term demos and final demos and students have written numerous blog posts about their work. Shruti Chaturvedi - CloudEvents Plugin for Jenkins Shruti is an undergrad student of Computer Science at Kalamazoo College. She is developing a CloudEvents integration for Jenkins, allowing other CloudEvents-compliant CI/CD tools to communicate easily. Shruti is also the Founding Engineer of a California-based startup, MeetKlara, where she is building serverless solutions and advocating for developing CI/CD pipelines using open-source tools. Affiliation: Kalamazoo College and Jenkins project GitHub: ShrutiC-git LinkedIn: Shruti Chaturvedi CloudEvents Plugin for Jenkins Project page Completed project blog post: Jenkins Interoperability with CloudEvents Mid-term blog: CloudEvents Plugin for Jenkins: Interoperability between Jenkins and other CI/CD Tools Final demo Mid-term demo Harshit Chopra - Git credentials binding for sh, bat, and powershell Harshit Chopra is a recent graduate and is currently working on a Jenkins project which brings the authentication support for cli git commands in a pipeline job and freestyle project. Affiliation: Punjab University & Jenkins Project GitHub: link: arpoch LinkedIn: Harshit Chopra Website Git credentials binding for sh, bat, and powershell Project page Mid-term blog: Git Credentials Binding for sh, bat, powershell Final demo Mid-term demo Akihiro Kiuchi - Jenkins Remoting Monitoring Akihiro is a student in the Department of information and communication engineering at the University of Tokyo. He is improving the monitoring experience of Jenkins Remoting during Google Summer of Code 2021. Affiliation: The University of Tokyo and Jenkins project GitHub: Aki-7 Jenkins Remoting Monitoring with OpenTelemetry Project page Mid-term blog: Remoting Monitoring with OpenTelemetry Final demo Mid-term demo Daniel Ko - try.spinnaker.io Daniel is studying computer science at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is developing a public Spinnaker sandbox environment for Google Summer of Code 2021. Affiliation: University of Wisconsin - Madison and Spinnaker project GitHub: ko28 LinkedIn: Daniel Ko try.spinnaker.io: Explore Spinnaker in a Sandbox Environment! Project page Completed project blog post: Interview with Daniel Ko — Google Summer of Code 2021 Final demo Mid-term demo Pulkit Sharma - Security Validator for Jenkins Kubernetes Operator Pulkit is a student at Indian Institute of Technology,BHU,Varanasi. He is working on a GSoC Project under Jenkins where he aims to add a security validator to the Jenkins Kubernetes Operator. Affiliation: Indian Institute of Technology, BHU and Jenkins Project. GitHub: sharmapulkit04 Security Validator for Jenkins Kubernetes Operator Project page Completed project blog post: Security Validator for Jenkins Operator for Kubernetes Final demo Mid-term demo Aditya Srivastava - Conventional Commits Plugin for Jenkins Aditya is a curiosity driven individual striving to find ingenious solutions to real-world problems. He is an open-source enthusiast and a lifelong learner. Aditya is also the Co-Founder and Maintainer of an Open Source Organization - Auto-DL, where he’s leading the development of a Deep Learning Platform as a Service application. Affiliation: V.E.S.I.T & Jenkins project GitHub: ADI10HERO LinkedIn: Aditya S. Conventional Commits Plugin for Jenkins Project page Completed project blog post: Work report for the Conventional Commits Plugin for Jenkins Mid-term blog: Introducing the Conventional Commits Plugin for Jenkins Final demo Mid-term demo Upcoming Events, September 28-30: DevOps World! This year CloudBees, one of the Jenkins corporate sponsors, has invited all students to participate in the DevOps World virtual conference on September 28-30. GSoC students will present lighting talks about their projects, attended other conference talks, and join the Continuous Delivery Foundation booth which represents CDF projects at the conference. We look forward to GSoC students' lightning talks during DevOps World! Swag All Google Summer of Code students and mentors receive swag from Google. In addition, this year, CloudBees has sponsored swag for the most active GSoC participants: all students, mentors, and many other contributors who participated and helped the projects to succeed. This is the forth year when the Jenkins organization sends extra GSoC swag. In the previous years swag logistics was one of the more challenging tasks for org admins during GSoC, and we highly appreciate that the Continuous Delivery Foundation will handle sending out the additional swag. Thanks you Google Open Source, Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) and CloudBees!

DevOps World has been the largest gathering for Jenkins for many years. In keeping with tradition, many Jenkins presentations and sessions are planned for this year’s event. Join us for DevOps World on September 28 - 30, 2021. The event is virtual, free to attend and will include the following Jenkins activities: Jenkins workshops Contributing to Open Source Securing Jenkins Pipeline with CyberArk Conjur Secrets Manager See the conference workshop list for more information about workshops. Breakout sessions Embracing Observability in Jenkins with OpenTelemetry - Cyrille Le Clerc Expanding Open Source in Africa with Jenkins - Experience Report - Mark Waite and Zainab Abubakar Visualizing Git Forensics Data in a Jenkins Plugin - Ullrich Hafner Speeding up Jenkins and Maven with a Build Cache - Justin Reock Auto Versioning at Scale with Jenkins and Ontrack - Taming the Hydra - Damien Coraboeuf Build up a Reliable Jenkins on KubeSphere - Rick Zhao Automate Jenkins operations on Kubernetes : Jenkins Automation Operator - Vibhav Bobade and Jawed Khelil Running JenkinsFileRunner as a Service - Jose Taboada From Big and Slow to Small and Agile: Splitting Monolithic Jenkins Controllers for Increased Performance - Dylan Dewhurst See the full agenda for more Jenkins sessions. Birds of a feather These are 30 minute networking sessions. Topics will be on security and pipeline. Discussions are led by Wadeck Follonier, Daniel Beck, Joost van der Griendt, and Mark Waite. Jenkins contributor summit A Jenkins Contributor Summit will be held October 2, 2021 at 7:00 AM UTC. The planning discussion is taking place at community.jenkins.io. We welcome topic suggestions or you can volunteer to present a topic about which you are passionate. Join in on the discussion. New and veteran contributors are welcome! Virtual expo hall Be sure to stop by the Jenkins booth for project update content or to chat with one of the Jenkins maintainers. Special thanks to review committee Lastly, special THANKS to the DevOps World review committee. We are grateful for their contributions to review, score and provide feedback for paper submissions. Alex Earl Viktor Farcic Victor Martinez Carlos Sanchez Looking forward to seeing you there!

Congratulations to all GSoC students who have made it through the first half of the GSoC 2021 coding phase! This year, the Jenkins project has been participating in GSoC as part of the Continuous Delivery Foundation’s GSoC org. To celebrate our GSoC students and the fantastic work they have been doing, the CDF is hosting an online meetup where students will present their work. Students will be showcasing what they have learned and accomplished thus far in GSoC, demoing their work, and discussing their goals and plans for the second coding phase. The CDF Google Summer of Code Midterm Demos will be held online on July 20th, 13:00 UTC - 15:00 UTC. Sign up here: Meetup Event Speakers Akihiro Kiuchi - Jenkins Remoting Monitoring Akihiro is a student in the Department of information and communication engineering at the University of Tokyo. He is improving the monitoring experience of Jenkins Remoting during Google Summer of Code 2021. Affiliation: The University of Tokyo and Jenkins project GitHub: Aki-7 Title: Jenkins Remoting Monitoring with OpenTelemetry In this talk, he will discuss the problems in maintaining Jenkins agents and how to support Jenkins admins in troubleshooting them. As one of the solutions, he will introduce the new Remoting monitoring with OpenTelemetry plugin that collects Jenkins Remoting monitoring data and troubleshooting data using OpenTelemetry. What kind of data the plugin will collect and how we will be able to visualize them using available open-source monitoring tools will be demonstrated. Shruti Chaturvedi - CloudEvents Plugin for Jenkins Shruti is an undergrad student of Computer Science at Kalamazoo College. She is developing a CloudEvents integration for Jenkins, allowing other CloudEvents-compliant CI/CD tools to communicate easily. Shruti is also the Founding Engineer of a California-based startup, MeetKlara, where she is building serverless solutions and advocating for developing CI/CD pipelines using open-source tools. Affiliation: Kalamazoo College and Jenkins project GitHub: ShrutiC-git LinkedIn: Shruti Chaturvedi Title: CloudEvents Plugin for Jenkins: Moving Towards Interoperability In this talk, we will look at interoperability as an essential element in building workloads across several services. We will also talk about how CloudEvents solves one of the biggest challenges in achieving interoperability between systems: lack of normalization/standardization. Without any standard definition, in order to achieve interoperability, services have to develop adapters specific to a particular system. That, however, is complex because services are always changing the way data/events are emitted. CloudEvents solves this problem by defining a standard format for events, which can be emitted/consumed agnostically, thereby achieving indirect interoperability. Shruti will demonstrate the workings of CloudEvents Plugin for Jenkins; she will walk us through how Jenkins can be configured as a source and a sink, emitting and consuming CloudEvents-compliant events in a platform-independent manner. Daniel Ko - try.spinnaker.io Daniel is studying computer science at the University of Wisconsin - Madison. He is developing a public Spinnaker sandbox environment for Google Summer of Code 2021. Affiliation: University of Wisconsin - Madison and Spinnaker project GitHub: ko28 Title: try.spinnaker.io: Explore Spinnaker in a Sandbox Environment! The talk will go through a brief explanation of Spinnaker and the challenges that users face during the installation process. He will discuss the infrastructure of this project and how a public multi tenant spinnaker instance will be managed and installed. We will end with a demo of the site so far and the various features implemented, including Github authentication, K8s manifest deployment, AWS Load Balancer Controller to expose deployments, private ECR registry and the blocking of all public images, and auto resource cleanup. Aditya Srivastava - Conventional Commits Plugin for Jenkins Aditya is a curiosity driven individual striving to find ingenious solutions to real-world problems. He is an open-source enthusiast and a lifelong learner. Aditya is also the Co-Founder and Maintainer of an Open Source Organization - Auto-DL, where he’s leading the development of a Deep Learning Platform as a Service application. Affiliation: V.E.S.I.T & Jenkins project GitHub: ADI10HERO LinkedIn: Aditya S. Title: Conventional Commits Plugin for Jenkins In this talk, we’ll start with what are conventional commits and why they are needed. Then we’ll see what the jenkins plugin, "Conventional Commits" is and what goal it is trying to achieve. A demo of how the plugin can be used/integrated in the current workflow will be shown. Finally, we’ll talk about the next steps in plugin development followed by the QnA. Harshit Chopra - Git credentials binding for sh, bat, and powershell Harshit Chopra is a recent graduate and is currently working on a Jenkins project which brings the authentication support for cli git commands in a pipeline job and freestyle project. Affiliation: Punjab University & Jenkins Project GitHub: link: arpoch LinkedIn: Harshit Chopra Website Title: Git credentials binding for sh, bat, and powershell In this talk, he will give an overview of the project and will move on further explaining what problems are being faced, a bit about the workaround that are being used to tackle the problems, what makes the authentication support so important, why a feature and not a plugin in itself, accomplishments achieved and work done during the coding phase 1, will talk about the implementation of the feature, demonstration of git authentication support over HTTP protocol. Pulkit Sharma - Security Validator for Jenkins Kubernetes Operator Pulkit is a student at Indian Institute of Technology,BHU,Varanasi. He is working on a GSoC Project under Jenkins where he aims to add a security validator to the Jenkins Kubernetes Operator. Affiliation: Indian Institute of Technology, BHU and Jenkins Project. GitHub: sharmapulkit04 Title: Security Validator for Jenkins Kubernetes Operator In this talk, we will discuss why we need a security validator for the Jenkins Kubernetes Operator and how we are going to implement it via admission webhooks. We will have a look at how we are going to implement the validation webhook, the validation logic being used and what tools we are using to achieve it. Pulkit will showcase his progress and will discuss his future plans for phase 2 and beyond as well.

The She Code Africa Contributhon started April 1, 2021. The She Code Africa Contributhon is a boot camp where African women are paid to work with open source organizations on selected projects with dedicated mentors. This program aims to create a more diverse, inclusive, and innovative culture within the African open source ecosystem by matching African women in technology with sponsor and mentor open source organizations. The 5 mentees joining the Jenkins project come from Nigeria, Kenya, and Rwanda. The Jenkins project has been accepted as a Contributhon mentoring organization. Our project idea will introduce mentees to Jenkins and plugin development as they create Pipeline examples and create Pipeline help for Jenkins Pipeline plugins. Twice weekly mentoring sessions are scheduled with the mentees and are listed in the events calendar. We’ve already received the first pull request to improve the embedded documentation that generates the Steps Reference and provides contextual help in the Snippet Generator. We’re looking forward to more pull requests and more improvements throughout April, 2021. We’d like to introduce our mentees so that you recognize them and can welcome them during code review and online chat. Onyinye Ezike Onyinye is based in Lagos, Nigeria. She’s a junior fullstack software developer who is very passionate about learning. She uses Angular, React, Nodejs, and Spring Boot. She has spent the last two years building up herself in software development and she’s hoping to become a world-class software developer. You’ll recognize her contributions as Onyimatics on GitHub and on the Jenkins issue tracker. Sharon Jebitok Sharon is based in Kenya. She’s a software development student at Microverse, a remote school for software developers. She has been an active member of She Code Africa and she’s presently a mentee on She Code Africa’s Contributhon Program with the Jenkins project. She has spent one year in the software industry since she switched her career into tech, learning to write meaningful code and collaborate with other developers/designers and the tech community. You’ll recognize her contributions as jebitok-dev on GitHub and as jebitok16_ on the Jenkins issue tracker. Esther Ejidike Esther is a frontend developer based in Lagos, Nigeria. She is one of the participants in the She Code Africa Contributhon Open Source Program working with Jenkins and will be contributing to the nodes and processes plugin. She loves to convert designs to exact replicas in the form of webpages and she likes to learn new things in her free time. You’ll recognize her contributions as Queen-esther01 on GitHub and as esther101 on the Jenkins issue tracker. Cynthia Iradukunda Cynthia Iradukunda is based in Kigali, Rwanda. She is currently a junior Computing student at the African Leadership University (ALU) in Mauritius. She wants to be a software engineer because it will help her solve real-world problems while also allowing her to use her coding skills. Her coding skills include but not limited to Java, JavaScript, and attention to detail. By contributing to the Git plugin, she hopes to help users have a smooth process using its documentation, get involved with the project, and connect with other community members. You’ll recognize her contributions as ciradu2204 on GitHub and as ciradu2204 on the Jenkins issue tracker. Lucy Karimi Lucy is based in Nairobi, Kenya. She is a software developer with experience in mobile app development. She is very passionate about tech and is currently involved in the SheCodeAfrica Contributhon. You’ll recognize her contributions as luciahroyalty101 on GitHub and as luciahroyalty101 on the Jenkins issue tracker. About the Contributhon projects See the previous blog post for more information about She Code Africa, the Contributhon, and the plans for Jenkins. Jenkins development tasks She Code Africa Contributhon mentoring organizations She Code Africa Contributhon She Code Africa Conversations related to the Contributhon are happening in a Continuous Delivery Foundation slack channel. Mentors We’re very grateful to the mentors from the Jenkins project that are hosting mentoring sessions, reviewing pull requests, and encouraging the mentees. Thanks to: Meg McRoberts Mark Waite Kristin Whetstone Oleg Nenashev Angélique Jard We also thank Zainab Abubakar of She Code Africa for her efforts to facilitate the Contributhon and encourage participation.

She Code Africa is a non-profit organization focused on celebrating and empowering young girls and women in technology across Africa. They provide resources and events that help women grow and achieve their personal and career goals. Their mentoring programs provide help and guidance as participants learn and grow in their careers. This year, She Code Africa is organizing the She Code Africa Contributhon. Contributhon is a boot camp where African women are paid to work with open source organizations on selected projects with dedicated mentors. This program aims to create a more diverse, inclusive, and innovative culture within the African open source ecosystem by matching African women in technology with sponsor and mentor open source organizations. Jenkins in She Code Africa Contributhon The Jenkins project has been accepted as a Contributhon mentoring organization. Our project idea will introduce participants to Jenkins and plugin development as they create Pipeline examples and create Pipeline help for Jenkins Pipeline plugins. Participants will learn more about Jenkins Pipeline and will submit plugin pull requests with examples and online help. The Jenkins Pipeline Steps Reference and Pipeline online help often receive feedback that more examples are needed, that step return values need to be described, and that arguments need more description of their purpose, allowed values, and expected results. Most plugin maintainers do not provide detailed documentation of the pipeline steps, or the arguments to those pipeline steps. This project will improve the documentation of pipeline steps and their arguments while introducing Jenkins Pipeline, Jenkins plugin development, Jenkins documentation as code, and the concepts of GitHub forks and pull requests. We’ve identified development tasks that up to three Contributhon participants will complete during April. The tasks will introduce the participants to Jenkins plugin development. They will experiment with plugin changes in Jenkins and submit pull requests to provide Pipeline examples and help. They will meet twice a week with Jenkins mentors, Kristin Whetstone, Mark Waite, and Meg McRoberts to review their progress, provide coaching, and help with issues. Data driven choices We’ve been collecting Jenkins documentation feedback since 2017. Now we’re using that feedback to prioritize the plugins to improve as part of this project. The top 10 Pipeline plugins that have received the most feedback are: Build step SCM step Git step Input step Nodes and processes steps Workspace cleanup step Basic Pipeline steps Slack notification steps HTTP request step Email extension steps What about my plugin? If you are a plugin maintainer and would like help to add examples and online help for the Pipeline steps in your plugin, send email to the Jenkins Documentation mailing list. We’ll consider including additional plugins as we better understand the development pace for She Code Africa participants.

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. Testimonials from former Jenkins GSoC participants ❤️ "I participated in Google Summer of Code 2020 in cooperation with the Jenkins organization and I work on a project called Windows Service Wrapper, which allows running Jenkins as a service on a Windows machine. GSoC was the most wonderful and the most valuable experience I gained during my student life. The whole journey was full of experiences and Jenkins mentors always were there for us. I experienced a huge development of my skills while I was working on the project. I had many meetings, knowledge sharing sessions, and one pair-coding session with my mentors. One of the best things that I learned is the open-source community and open source mentality. It is not only about taking, but also about giving. Today I am maintaining an open-source project which is a simple programming language for kids which allows them to code in their native language, which will help to learn coding to students in rural areas of my country. Finally, Jenkins is a wonderful family and they always were there for us in all the ups and downs. I am proud to be a part of the Jenkins community." Buddhika Chathuranga, GSoC 2020 student, Support for YAML Configuration in Windows Service Wrapper "My GSoC journey in the Jenkins community starts by a draft proposal full of comments from mentors and ends by two plugins with hundreds of installations. Along with the daily coding review, the weekly meeting and the growth of the project, I increased my skills on programming and became a much more eligible engineer. What is more, the support from the whole Jenkins community leads me to a broader career path. I learned how to maintain a project, how to communicate with users and other developers on GitHub. Most importantly, the Jenkins community teaches me the principles of the open source world and welcomes me to the open source world with all their kind help." Kezhi Xiong, GSoC 2020 students, GitHub Checks API project "I worked as a Google Summer of Code student with the Jenkins project during the summer of 2019. The project provided me with an excellent opportunity to contribute to the world’s most popular automation server, learn about building performant and reliable applications, and interact with awesome people around the globe. Jenkins' ever helpful and extremely knowledgeable community made working on my project a real treat. I even got a chance to present my project at DevOps World in Lisbon! If you’re deciding which organization to work for this year, choose the Jenkins project — you can’t have a better GSoC experience than this!" Abhyudaya Sharma, GSoC 2019 student, Role Strategy Performance Improvements "I participated in Google Summer of Code 2018 with Jenkins as a student developer. Working for Jenkins in GSoC 2018 was one of the best experiences I have ever had. During 3 months of summer, I learned a lot of new things when working on the open-source project with Jenkins. Another best thing about Jenkins is the people, I received a lot of support from my mentors and other developers from the Jenkins community when working on my project. After GSoC, I also had a chance to go to the Jenkins World Conference in San Francisco to meet and connect with my mentors and other people in the Jenkins community. Overall, GSoC with Jenkins was a great experience and I highly recommend Jenkins as a great community to kickstart your open source journey." Pham Vu Tuan, GSoC 2018 student, Remoting over Apache Kafka project Important dates for GSoC 2021 Apr 13 - deadline for student applications May 17 - accepted projects announced, teams start community bonding and coding Aug 16 - coding period ends Aug 31 - Results announced See the GSoC Timeline for more info.

The Jenkins Contributor Summit brings together current and future contributors to the Jenkins project. We’re hosting an online summit this year to encourage contributors from around the world to meet, discuss, and plan for the future. The Contributor Summit will be Tuesday, February 23rd 2021 through Thursday, February 25, 2021. The summit brings together community members to learn, meet, and help shape the future of Jenkins. In the Jenkins community we value all types and sizes of contributions and love to welcome new participants. Format The online format allows greater flexibility for meeting times and topics. Contributors will meet to discuss specific topics in smaller groups at times that are convenient for those in the meeting. Opening session The opening session will start Tuesday, February 23, 2021 at 15:00 UTC. After an initial welcome and overview, we’ll hear from leaders in the Jenkins project as they share the results from the previous 12 months and outline ideas for the next 12 months. Security - Daniel Beck Infrastructure - Olivier Vernin Release - Tim Jacomb User experience - Félix Queiruga Chinese localization - 赵晓杰(Rick) Configuration as code - Tim Jacomb Google Summer of Code - Kara de la Marck Documentation - Mark Waite Events and Advocacy - Alyssa Tong Cloud Native - Kara de la Marck Platforms - Mark Waite After those presentations, we’ll create "breakout rooms" in the online meeting that will allow those interested in specific tracks to meet, identify preferred times for their tracks, and prepare draft agendas for their tracks. Tracks Smaller sessions ("tracks") will be run in the 48 hour period between the opening session and the closing session. These smaller sessions will be focused on specific topics. A track leader will organize the track meeting, facilitate discussions in the track meeting, and present a summary of the track results in the closing session. Closing session The opening session will start Thursday, February 25, 2021 at 15:00 UTC. After an initial welcome and overview, we’ll hear from track leaders as they share the results from their track meetings. We’ll identify items that should be added to the Jenkins roadmap, items that should be further investigated by special interest groups, and items that need further discussion elsewhere.

With the mentor summit and the project retrospectives finished in October, now we can call Google Summer of Code 2020 officially over in the Jenkins community. On behalf of the Jenkins org team, we would like to thank all participants: students, mentors, applicants, and dozens of other contributors who participated in the project this year. Google Summer of Code would not be successful without the active participation of the Jenkins community. If you follow the Jenkins blog, you may have already seen many GSoC 2020 articles created by the project teams. Here I would like to focus on the key highlights from the project. Projects In 2020 we had seven students working in the Jenkins mentoring organization. We had 6 projects focused on Jenkins and one project focused on Jenkins X. As usual, in GSoC we focused on problems important to the Jenkins users and community members. The projects delivered highly anticipated new features and key architecture changes needed for long-term evolution of Jenkins. Here are the projects we had this year: Custom Jenkins distribution build service by Sladyn Nunes External Fingerprint Storage by Sumit Sarin Git Plugin Performance Improvements by Rishabh Budhouliya GitHub Checks API for Jenkins Plugins by Kezhi Xiong Jenkins X: Apps/Addons consolidation by Zixuan Liu Machine Learning Plugins for Data Science by Loghi Perinpanayagam Jenkins Windows Services: YAML Configuration Support by Buddhika Chathuranga Please refer to the project pages for more information, links to the blog posts, and project demos. Let’s focus on the results instead. This is the first ever time in Jenkins when all GSoC students have reached the final evaluation and successfully passed it. It was an incredible effort by all the project members and, most importantly, by the students. Thanks a lot to them! . Thanks a lot to all mentors who were guiding students during their projects: Zhao Xiaojie, Kristin Whetstone, Parichay Barpanda, Martin d’Anjou, Oleg Nenashev, Andrey Falko, Mike Cirioli, Mark Waite, Francisco Fernandez, Justin Harringa, Omkar Deshpande, Ulli Hafner, Tim Jacomb, Kara de la Marck, James Strachan, Neha Gupta, Oscar Medina, Nikhil Da Rocha, Sahil Kalra, Bruno P. Kinoshita, Ioannis Moutsatsos, Marky Jackson, Shivay Lamba, and Next Turn. GSoC 2020 Org admin team: Kara de la Marck, Martin d’Anjou, Marky Jackson, Oleg Nenashev. Events Thanks to the GSoC organization stipend from Google and other donations, the Jenkins project usually provides travel grants to successful students so that they can visit a major community event, meet their mentors and community members in person, and present their work there. Here are some notes about the GSoC 2019 travel. Unfortunately this year it was not possible, and GSoC went completely virtual this year. Online meetups In August we organized Jenkins Online Meetups where students have presented their projects ( part 1, part 2). You can find recordings of these presentations in this playlist on the Jenkins YouTube channel. DevOps World This year CloudBees, one of the Jenkins corporate sponsors, invited all students to participate in the DevOps World virtual conference on September 23-25. GSoC students did lighting talks about their projects, attended other conference talks, and joined the Continuous Delivery Foundation booth which represented the project at the conference. You can find recordings of the talks and all materials here. Although the conference was in September, the talks were pre-recorded in early August. Please refer to the Jenkins online meetup recordings for the recent versions. GSoC Mentor summit This is a regular gathering for Google Summer of Code mentors and org admins where they share their experiences about GSoC, outreach programs, community management, and tools. Usually it is organized as a multi-day unconference after the end of GSoC, with 2-3 representatives from each project. It has been a great learning experience to participate in it. This year it was a single-day virtual event, and all mentors were able to attend. Shivay Lamba, one of the GSoC 2020 mentors, also did a lightning talk about the GSoC projects he was working on in Jenkins and CNCF ( slides). Swag All Google Summer of Code students and mentors get swag from Google. This year, Contrinuos Delivery Foundation (CDF) has sponsored swag for 50 most active GSoC participants: all students, mentors, and many other contributors who participated and helped the projects to succeed. This is the third year when the Jenkins organization sends extra GSoC swag, In the previous years the swag logistics was one of the most challenging tasks for org admins during the entire project. and we highly appreciate help from CDF with this part. As DevOps World presenters, the students have also received special edition speaker swag from CloudBees. Thanks a lot to Google, Contrinuos Delivery Foundation (CDF) and CloudBees! Retrospective After completion of the coding phases, org admins have reached out to all GSoC 2020 participants to gather their feedback and suggestions. We also recommended that project teams hold their own retrospective meetings. Such information is instrumental to continuously improving GSoC in the Jenkins community. We thank all contributors who shared their feedback! The organization-wide retrospective was organized as a survey and a series of retrospective meetings. You can find aggregated results in this Google Doc. Overall, we received very positive feedback from students and mentors. The GSoC framework in Jenkins has matured significantly during the previous years. The effort we invested to create guidelines and recommendations for all parties helped a lot because all the expectations were known in advance. As usual, there is much to improve, especially with regards to the community bonding phases and cross-project communications. We are processing the feedback, and we will expand our documentation and the contributor onboarding plans next year. Some personal notes I have been involved in leading and coordinating Google Summer of Code in open source projects since 2016. This year I visited the GSoC stand at FOSDEM and met a few organizers and former students. A few days after, I proposed participating in GSoC at the Jenkins contributor summit in Brussels, and several contributors supported this idea. We spent several hours to create the first Jenkins GSoC page and brainstorm on project ideas. We submitted our application and were accepted. Thanks a lot to the Google team that gave us a chance! It is great to work with the students and see how they explore the open source community and grow professionally as engineers. It is also awesome to see how some of them stay in the project and keep contributing, including becoming plugin maintainers and GSoC mentors. But, for me, Google Summer of Code is not just about mentoring. It also helps a lot with the community bonding…​ for the existing community like Jenkins which has a lot of isolated sub-communities in plugins. Many maintainers work alone, and it can be quite lonely working to maintain a plugin without feedback, developer ideas, and user interactions. When plugin contributors become project mentors, they join the wider community effort and work in teams. In many cases they start contributing to the organization-wide activities and goals, and it grows the "backbone" of the Jenkins community. Like other community-driven projects, we need such backbone to scale the community and onboard more contributors to the countless Jenkins components. So far it works really well and GSoC excels among outreach programs in this regard. I would like to thank the Google Open Source team, students and all Jenkins community members for the great Google Summer of Code this year. We also thank the Continuous Delivery Foundation for their help to recognize contributors and allow organization administrators to focus on projects. Last but not least, I would like to thank the Jenkins org admin team: Martin d’Anjou, Marky Jackson, and Kara de la Marck. This was a crazy year for everyone. Regardless of that, the org admins stepped up and took responsibility for students and mentors involved in the project, with a serious time commitment. Not all work by the organizers is publicly visible (applications, project selection, resolving conflicts), but this work is essential to the project’s success. Thanks a lot to org admins and mentors who helped with the administrative tasks this year! What’s about GSoC 2021? Yes, we plan to participate in Google Summer of Code 2021. The application period for organizations will start in a few months, but we have already started preparing for the next GSoC session. We are looking for mentors, org admins and project ideas. Please contact us if you are interested! Call for Mentors and Project Ideas GSoC 2021 project ideas HOWTO: Propose a project idea Information for mentors : guidelines and expectations We invite potential students to start exploring the project and the available project ideas. Original ideas are always welcome in the project, and starting early is a great opportunity to get introduced to the Jenkins community, collect more information about the problem areas, and to create a good proposal. "Start early" is the most popular recommendation from GSoC 2020 participants to future GSoC students, and we encourage you to follow this advice!