Key Takeaways Basil Crow joins the Jenkins Governance Board. A Jenkins Contributor Summit will be held prior to FOSDEM. The Contributor Spotlight site is now live. Contributed by: Mark Waite Basil Crow joins the Jenkins governance board in December 2023. He’ll serve for a two-year term. Thanks to Basil for…
The Jenkins Contributor Summit, being held in Brussels on February 2nd, is now quickly approaching. We are looking forward to meeting you. If you plan to join us and didn’t let us know yet, don’t forget to register by dropping us a note. The list of registered attendees can be…
Who is Sonar? Sonar is a code quality and security tool that helps developers write Clean Code. Sonar analyzes code for issues that lead to unreliable, unmaintainable, and insecure software at two points in the development lifecycle - first, when the developer initially writes code in the IDE with SonarLint…
Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier The Jenkins Security team has multiple missions, with the most visible to users being the publication of advisories. In 2023, the team published 17 advisories: 4 included Jenkins core, and 13 were solely about plugins. In total, 211 vulnerabilities were announced. In terms of reporting trends,…
Jenkins Contributor Awards for 2024 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 is February 19, 2024.…
We are thrilled to announce that Jenkins has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2024! This will be Jenkins' eighth year as a mentoring organization. Congratulations to all 195 accepted open-source organizations! As a mentoring organization for the past seven years, Jenkins has mentored 35 GSoC students by 85+…
The previous in-person Jenkins Contributor Summit took place in 2020, just prior to the lockdowns and precautions that would change the world. Thankfully, on February 2, 2024, just prior to this year’s FOSDEM conference, we were able to gather again, in Brussels, so that we could have an in-person Jenkins…
The Google Summer of Code 2024 contributor application period has ended and we are excited to have received over 75 valid applications from potential contributors, interested in contributing to Jenkins via this program. We are grateful to all the students who applied and look forward to reviewing their applications over…
cdCon 2024 just wrapped up in Seattle and this included announcing the winners of the Continuous Delivery Foundation and Jenkins Community Awards. The CD Foundation provides awards for the Top CDF ambassador, contributor, documenter, and end user. Anyone that is part of the CD Foundation can be nominated for these.…
This year, we received numerous outstanding Google Summer of Code (GSoC) proposals for Jenkins with just as many compelling ideas. Many thanks to all who submitted their proposal(s) previously. Due to a very limited number of mentors available, we could only accept a small number of submissions. Congratulations go out…