2023 June 8 Jenkins GSoC Office Hours

Attendees: Kris, JMM, Bruno, Alyssa, Adrien, Dheeraj, Rajiv, Jagruti, Harsh, Vandit

Agenda & Notes:

  • Ashutosh cannot attend since away from home
  • As usual
    • What did you learn this past week?
  • Plugin Health Scores – Jagruti
    • Worked on 3rd party probe
    • Learned parameterized test cases
    • Writing a new test case
    • Learning more about Maven
    • Learning about the different scenarios including the edge cases
    • Adrien happy about Jagruti’s progress, wants to focus on testing and Maven
  • Building jenkins.io with alternative tools – Vandit
    • Learned about Regex and scripting and applying to project
    • JMM recommends the using of Regex 101 website for validating Regex
    • Kris wants to be more on top of things, will need to move towards using PR’s for progress checking
  • Docker Quickstart – Ashutosh
    • Slow progress at first
    • A lot of work to make things simple for the user for a quickstart
    • Ashutosh has to learn about PR’s and issues
    • Bruno hopes next week project will pick up speed next week
  • GitLab plugin modernisation – Harsh
    • Did a lot like the draft PR’s (1st and 2nd)
    • Will need to make a proper PR for Basil to review
    • Having problems with making a SNAPSHOT for gitlab4j-api on Apple M1
    • GitLab just released some breaking changes
    • One third is almost done
    • 2nd PR brought back backwards-compatibility
  • Milestone mid-July
    • Presentation to the community before the evaluations take place
    • Will need to confirm a time particularly with Alyssa
    • Tentatively Thursday July 6th during time normally reserved for the Office Hours
    • Adrien will be away during the proposed time, but will work with Jagruti to prepare for the midterm presentation
    • Harsh has exam on July 6th - 13th
    • Adrien suggested recorded presentations
    • Or we could move the time to either before or later
    • Harsh will discuss with mentors about possible solutions tomorrow
    • Vandit will have exams around June 30th
    • Vandit will need to talk to mentors as well to follow up
  • Next week JMM will have 1-on-1 meetings with contributors