About In the Jenkins ecosystem, there are over 1800 plugins. The plugins are not equal in terms of their quality, maintenance or support. As an instance administrator or an engineer working in a shared service team, determining which plugins are of good quality can be complicated. When someone asks you to install a plugin, what should you check before installing it? If you are a maintainer, what should you...

Open source software has changed software development. Companies readily use open source as a key part of their software development and delivery. Open source operating systems dominate cloud computing operating systems. Open source JavaScript libraries and frameworks like Angular, Vue.js, and React are key components in web applications. Open source Java libraries and frameworks like Spring Framework, Spring Boot, Hibernate, and Grails provide effective and powerful foundations for...

About The Jenkins Contributor Summit brings together current and future contributors to the Jenkins project. It is a community driven event, with its agenda created with input and suggestions from Jenkins community members. Date | Location Tuesday, September 27, 2022 @ 9AM - 5PM DevOps World 2022 | Orlando, Florida This Contributor Summit will be in-person. It is Free to attend. Sign up is required. Seats are limited. Conference registration...

Summary Beginning with Jenkins weekly v2.333 (released on January 31, 2022) and Jenkins LTS v2.346.1, Jenkins core has upgraded from GIF and PNG icons to SVG icons. Plugins that will be affected by this change are tracked in a spreadsheet found in JENKINS-68251. Plugins that do not interact with icons are unaffected by this change. Background Scalable vector graphics (SVG) icons provide a more attractive user interface. They are able...

The GSoC community bonding period just finished. The four Jenkins GSoC projects are now ready. Contact between contributors and mentors is established. Regular communication channels are setup (weekly project meetings and dedicated chat). Links to the project plans and plannings drafts are published on the project pages. Next step, the actual coding! Together with their mentors, Dheeraj, Ymming, Hrushikesh, and Vihaan will work the whole summer on their respective projects. End...

On behalf of the Jenkins GSoC team and mentors, We would like to welcome Dheeraj Singh Jodha, Yiming Gong, Hrushikesh Rao, and Vihaan Thora. They will be working on Google Summer of Code projects in the Jenkins organization, and they have already done some contributions. This year we have the following projects: Plugin Health Scoring System - Provide a 'plugin health indicator' for plugin maintainers and Jenkins administrators. Contributor: Dheeraj Singh Jodha from India Mentors: Jake...

The Jenkins infrastructure team has extended the reach of the ci.jenkins.io agents. We’re grateful that DigitalOcean has donated $2760 to the Jenkins project. The donation has allowed us to run jobs from ci.jenkins.io on an additional cluster hosted by DigitalOcean. Easy setup We defined a new Kubernetes cluster on DigitalOcean with the DigitalOcean Terraform provider. The infrastructure is defined as code in our DigitalOcean infrastructure repository. Resource management The DigitalOcean user...

The She Code Africa Contributhon started April 5, 2022. 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...

Jenkins Contributor Awards for 2022 are being run by the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF) along with many other CDF Community Awards. The nominations are open and are being accepted using GitHub issues to make the process transparent. Any contributor is eligible! The deadline to nominate someone has been extended to April 11, 2022. Voting will open later in April. Nominate contributors or vote with reactions/comments for all three Jenkins...

Beginning with Jenkins 2.335 and Jenkins 2.332.1, the Jenkins project is migrating from System V init(8) to systemd(1) in its official Debian, Red Hat, and openSUSE packages. The official Docker image and Helm chart remain unchanged. For up-to-date information, refer to the Managing systemd services page in the documentation. Background Beginning in 2008, the Jenkins (then Hudson) project has delivered Linux OS installation packages for Debian (and derivatives),...