As another great phase for the External Fingerprint Storage Project comes to an end, we summarise the work done during this phase in this blog post. It was an exciting and fruitful journey, just like the previous phase, and offered some great learning experience. To understand what the project is about and the past progress, please refer to the phase 1 blog post. New Stories Completed We targeted four stories in...

Git Plugin Performance Improvement is a Google Summer of Code 2020 project. It aims to improve the performance of the git plugin, which provides fundamental git functionalities. Internally, the plugin provides these functionalities using two implementations: command line git and JGit (pure java implementation). CLI git is the default implementation for the plugin, a user can switch to JGit if needed The project is divided into two parallel...

This blog post is about our coding phase 1 progress on GSoC project: GitHub Checks API Plugin. The GitHub Checks API is a highly customized way to integrate CI tools to make reports for pull-requests (PRs). It allows users to see CI reports on GitHub pages directly. Figure 1. GitHub Check Run Screenshot from GitHub Docs What’s more exciting is that it can leave annotations on specific lines...

Hello all, I am Buddhika Chathuranga from Sri Lanka and I am a final year undergraduate at the Faculty of IT, University of Moratuwa. I am participating in GSoC 2020 with Jenkins. I am working on the Windows Service Wrapper Project. So the Coding Phase 01 of GSoC 2020 is now over and this blog post describes what I have done so far. Windows Service Wrapper is...

Welcome back ! This blog post is briefing my coding phase 1 in Jenkins Machine Learning Plugin for this GSoC 2020. After a fresh introduction of community bonding, On June 1st, coding of GSoC had started officially with phase 1. At this point, every GSoC student should be expected to have a rigid plan with their entire project. With the guidance of mentors I was able...

Externalizing fingerprint storage for Jenkins is a Google Summer of Code 2020 project. We are working on building a pluggable storage engine for fingerprints (see JEP-226). File fingerprinting is a way to track which version of a file is being used by a job/build, making dependency tracking easy. The fingerprint engine of Jenkins can track usages of artifacts, credentials, files, etc. within the system. Currently,...

Hello everyone ! This is one of the Jenkins project in GSoC 2020. We are working this new Machine Learning Plugin for this GSoC 2020. This is my story about the community bonding of GSoC 2020. I am happy to share my journey with you. Introducing Myself and my Fantastic 4 Mentors I am Loghi Perinpanayagam from University of Moratuwa. I was selected for GSoC 2020 for Machine...

After an amazing three months of development period in the summer of 2019 with Jenkins Project, I was a better developer, loved open source, met passionate people and had fun at work. Jenkins is not just a community, it is a family. When GSoC period was over, we received swags from Jenkins. Natasha Stopa (one of the students in GSoC 2019) was invited to attend DevOps...

I had the privilege of being invited to DevOps World | Jenkins World 2019 for presenting the work I did during Google Summer of Code 2019. What follows is a day-by-day summary of an amazing trip to the conference. Day 0: December 1, 2019 I am an undergraduate student from New Delhi, India and had traveled to Lisbon to attend the conference. I had an early morning flight to Lisbon from...

Google Summer of Code is much more than a summer internship program, it is a year-round effort for the organization and some community members. Now, after the DevOps World | Jenkins World conference in Lisbon and final retrospective meetings, we can say that GSoC 2019 is officially over. We would like to start by thanking all participants: students, mentors, subject matter experts and all other contributors...