This blog post is the last one from the series of Google Summer of Code 2016, External Workspace Manager Plugin project. The previous posts are: Introductory blog post Alpha release announcement Beta release announcement In this post I would like to announce the 1.0.0 release of the External Workspace Manager Plugin version to the main update center. Here’s a highlight of the available features: Workspace share and reuse across multiple jobs, running on...

This blog post is a continuation of the External Workspace Manager Plugin related posts, starting with the introductory blog post, and followed by the alpha version release announcement. As the title suggests, the beta version of the External Workspace Manager Plugin was launched! This means that it’s available only in the Experimental Plugins Update Center. Take care when installing plugins from the Experimental Update Center, since they may change in backward-incompatible...

Currently it’s quite difficult to share and reuse the same workspace between multiple jobs and across nodes. There are some possible workarounds for achieving this, but each of them has its own drawback, e.g. stash/unstash pre-made artifacts, Copy Artifacts plugin or advanced job settings. A viable solution for this problem is the External Workspace Manager plugin, which facilitates workspace share and reuse across multiple Jenkins jobs and nodes. It...

As you probably know, on this year Jenkins projects participates in Google Summer of Code 2016. You can find more information about the accepted projects on the GSoC subproject page and in the Jenkins Developer mailing list. On this week GSoC students are going to present their projects as a part of mid-term evaluation, which covers one month of community bonding and one month of coding. We would like to...

About me I am Minudika Malshan, an undergraduate student in Computer Science and Engineering from University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. As a person who is passionate in open source software development and seeking for new knowledge and experience, I am willing to give my contribution for this project. LinkedIn | Twitter Abstract The Support-Core Plugin provides the basic infrastructure for generating "bundles" of support information with Jenkins. There are two...

About myself Hello, my name is Payal Priyadarshini. I am pursing my major in Computer Science & Engineering at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India. I am very proficient in writing code in Python, C++, Java and currently getting familiar and hopefully good in Groovy too. I have internship experiences in renowned institutions like Google and VMware where I worked with some exciting technologies for example Knowledge...

About me I am Cynthia Anyango from Nairobi, Kenya. I am a second year student at Maseno University. I am currently specializing on Ruby on Rails and trying to learn Python. I recently started contributing to Open source projects.My major contribution was at Mozilla, where I worked with the QA for Cloud services. I did manual and automated tests for various cloud services. I wrote documentation too. Above that, I...

About me My name is Samat Davletshin and I am from HSE University from Moscow, Russia. I interned at Intel and Yandex, and cofounded a startup project where I personally developed front-end and back-end of the website. I am excited to participate in GSoC with Jenkins this summer as a chanсe to make a positive change for thousands of users as well as to learn from great mentors. Abstract Although powerful,...

About myself My name is Alexandru Somai. I’m following a major in Software Engineering at the Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania. I have more than two years hands-on experience working in Software Development. I enjoy writing code in Java, Groovy and JavaScript. The technologies and frameworks that I’m most familiar with are: Spring Framework, Spring Security, Hibernate, JMS, Web Services, JUnit, TestNG, Mockito. As build tools and continuous integration, I’m using...

As you probably know, Jenkins project has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2016. During last month we were working with students in order to discuss their project ideas and to review their application drafts. Thanks again to all students and mentors for your hard work during about ten office hours and dozens of other calls/chats! Current status We have successfully handled the student application period We have received...