This blog post is part 2 of the Introducing the Conventional Commits Plugin blog. The goal of this blog is to showcase the work done during the Google Summer of Code 2021 coding phases. Please refer the part 1 of the blog for a detailed description of the plugin. Abstract The project/plugin aims to fully automate a release process. The plugin tries to achieve this goal by automatically determining...

Abstract This project implemented two new credential bindings to perform authenticated operations using command line git in Jenkins pipeline and freestyle jobs. The two credential bindings are gitSshPrivateKey and gitUsernamePassword. Implementation Type Feature Location The gitUsernamePassword binding is implemented in Jenkins git plugin v4.8.0. The gitSshPrivateKey binding is implemented in a pull request to the Jenkins git plugin Dependencies Credentials Binding Plugin- It is used to bind Git specific environment variables with shell scripts/commands which...

The What, Why and How of Interoperability With workloads and teams becoming more diverse and complex, there is an increasing need to automate various tasks in the CI/CD ecosystem of an application as a way to decrease complexity that can come with CI/CD. A more diverse team working across different aspects of the application requires a diverse suite of CI/CD tools too, to test and deliver...

Goal The goal of this project: collect telemetry data(metrics, traces, logs) of remoting module with OpenTelemetry. send the telemetry data to OpenTelemetry Protocol endpoint Which OpenTelemetry endpoint to use and how to visualize the data are up to users. OpenTelemetry An observability framework for cloud-native software OpenTelemetry is a collection of tools, APIs, and SDKs. You can use it to instrument, generate, collect, and export telemetry data(metrics, logs, and traces) for analysis in order to...

The conventional commits plugin is a Google Summer of Code project. Special thanks to the mentors Gareth Evans, Kristin Whetstone, Olivier Vernin and Allan Burdajewicz. What are Conventional Commits According to the official website, conventonal commits are, "A specification for adding human and machine readable meaning to commit messages." Conventional commits are a lightweight convention on top of commit messages. The following table shows major structural elements offered by...

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...

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...

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...

Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a program where students are paid a stipend by Google to work on a free open source project. Students work on the project for three months (June to August). Prior to the coding phase, there is a month of community bonding, to welcome students to the Jenkins community and acquaint them with the projects processes for communication and collaboration. Mentors are actively...

Hello everyone, This is the final blog post for the Custom Distribution Service project during the Google Summer of Code timeline. I have mixed feelings since we are almost near the finish line for one of the most amazing open source programs out there. However, it is time to wrap things up for this project and achieve a state where the project can be built upon and...