Alyssa Tong
Member of the Jenkins Advocacy and Outreach SIG. Alyssa drives and manages Jenkins participation in community events and conferences like FOSDEM, SCaLE, cdCON, and KubeCon. She is also responsible for Marketing & Community Programs at CloudBees, Inc.
The community bonding period is the three weeks between GSoC contributor acceptance and the start of the coding date. This is a vital time for mentors and org admins to engage with GSoC contributors and set them up for success. This is the time to set expectations and milestones, welcome the contributors to the community, and give them access to the tools...
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 to Danyang Zhao, Sridhar S, Shlomo Dahan, Nour Almulhem, and Phillipp Glanz for...
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+ different mentors, bringing together over 110 strangers for a common idea - Jenkins! At...
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. Voting will open on February 22 and close on Friday, March 22. You can vote...
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, we have seen an increase in people reporting CVEs originating from dependencies. Our position on...
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 his willingness to serve. More details of the 2023 governance board and officer changes are available in a...
We are happy to announce that Jenkins is preparing to participate in its eighth (8th) year in Google Summer of Code (GSoC). What is Google Summer of Code? Google Summer of Code (GSoC) is a global, online mentoring program focused on introducing new contributors to open-source software development. GSoC contributors work on a 10-22 weeks-long programming project with the guidance of mentors from...
Key Takeaways JDK21 is available on the infrastructure and in official Docker images too. 💥Breaking change: set Java 17 as default for LTS. Prototype has been removed as of weekly 2.426 Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier Core security advisory published on October 18 https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2023-10-18/ Includes an essential Jetty update that provided multiple fixes. Plugin security advisory published on October 25 https://jenkins.io/security/advisory/2023-10-25/ Multiple high score vulnerabilities in various plugins During Hacktoberfest, the Content...
Key Takeaways JDK21 is around the corner Contributed by: Wadeck Follonier A plugin security advisory was published on September 6. Security Advisory 2023-09-06 This included multiple high score vulnerabilities in various plugins. A core security advisory was published on September 20. Security Advisory 2023-09-20 Multiple vulnerabilities were corrected in core. This advisory also included fixes for a plugin. Contributed by: Mark Waite Voter registration is now open for the 2023 Jenkins...