GSoC 2021 Project Ideas

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Jenkins GSoC This page aggregates project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2021. See more information about this project and applications on the Jenkins Google Summer of Code page.

Below you can find project ideas which have been proposed for this year. New ideas may be proposed by interested mentors or students (e.g. new features in the core, "write a plugin for MY_TOOL_OR_SERVICE", etc.). Project ideas without potential mentors will be considered though applicants may need to work with the community and GSoC org admins to find mentors. To add a new project idea, see: proposing project ideas.

Accepted ideas

Below you can see the list of project ideas that fully match the Jenkins' project idea standard. The scope of these ideas is well known and we don’t normally expect deep changes. All ideas have quick start guidelines and newbie-friendly issues referenced. We welcome contributors to join the mentor teams, and we invite students to submit project proposal applications in relation to these ideas.

Project Category Skills to study/improve

Automatic Specification Generator for Jenkins REST API

Find and implement the extraction of the REST APIs from the sources and generate and publish the REST APIs respective documentation.

Potential Mentor(s): Kristin Whetstone Oleg Nenashev 赵晓杰(Rick) Sumit Sarin

Plugins

Java, REST API, OpenAPI / Swagger

CloudEvents plugin for Jenkins

Be able to listen to and emit cloudevents from Jenkins.

Potential Mentor(s): Vibhav Bobade Mauricio Salatino

Plugins

Java, Cloudevents sdk, Networking

Git credentials binding for sh, bat, and powershell

Allow greater git flexibility from Jenkins Pipelines.

Potential Mentor(s): Mark Waite Rishabh Budhouliya Jeff Pearce Justin Harringa

Plugins

Java, Git

Git credentials binding for sh, bat, and powershell

Allow greater git flexibility from Jenkins Pipelines.

Potential Mentor(s): Mark Waite Rishabh Budhouliya Jeff Pearce Justin Harringa

Plugins

Java, Git

Security validator for Jenkins Kubernetes Operator

Improve security aspects of installing Jenkins plugins in Kubernetes environment..

Potential Mentor(s): Sylwia Brant Jakub Al-Khalili Bartek Antoniak

Plugins

Go, Kubernetes, Bash

Plugin Installation Manager Tool Improvements

Introduce new features and improvements in the plugin installation manager.

Potential Mentor(s): Oleg Nenashev Sladyn Nunes

Tools

Java, YAML, Command line tools, Package management tool theory

Jenkins Remoting Monitoring

Support monitoring of Jenkins remoting networking with open source monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, etc..

Potential Mentor(s): Oleg Nenashev Darshan Kansagara Sladyn Nunes Sumit Sarin

Plugins, Core

Java, Networking, Docker, Prometheus/Grafana/etc.

Tekton Pipelines DSL for Jenkins with the Tekton Client Plugin

Manage Tekton resources via Pipeline Steps / Jenkinsfile.

Potential Mentor(s): Vibhav Bobade Gareth Evans

Plugins

Java, Kubernetes, Tekton Pipelines

Draft project ideas

Below you can see draft project ideas, which are currently under review. The scope of such ideas may change during the discussions, but the idea is accepted in principle. You are welcome to comment on the draft and to join the project as a mentor. If you are a student, it is also fine to explore and to apply to the draft project ideas.

Project

Category

Skills to study/improve

Pipeline Step Documentation Generator improvements

Enhance the Jenkins Pipeline documentation generator to produce better documentation for thousands of Pipeline developers.

Potential Mentor(s): Kristin Whetstone Mark Waite Oleg Nenashev

Dev Tools

Java, Jenkins Pipeline, HTML, CSS, Asciidoc, JavaScript

Semantic Versioning plugin for Jenkins

Automatically determine the next semantic version for a repository.

Potential Mentor(s): Gareth Evans

Plugins

Java, Semver

Ongoing discussion

These are proposals in the mailing lists which have not been published as project ideas yet. The feasibility is yet to be defined, and the idea may be dismissed depending on the feedback. Everyone is welcome to participate in the discussion and to join as a potential mentor.

Project

Category