2023 May 25 Jenkins GSoC Office Hours

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

Agenda & Notes:

  • Going by projects
    • Plugin Health Scores – Jagruti
      • All requirements for Bonding Period has been done
        • Contributor bio
        • Project page updates
        • Blog post
      • What happened last week?
        • Worked on test cases
        • Started contribute to one probe
      • Next week?
        • Continue work on project
      • Feedback from Adrien (the lead mentor)
        • Good progress
        • Plenty of things to do to be tackled one-by-one
        • Looking forward to first PR for GSoC
      • Feedback from Dheeraj (mentor)
        • Nice ability to take hints to deliver results in the project
    • Building jenkins.io with alternative tools – Vandit
      • This week
        • Exams at school until the coming weekend
      • All requirements for Bonding Period completed
        • Contributor bio
        • Project page update
        • Blog post
      • Next week
        • Real coding work will start
        • Already has experimented with Antora and set up some repos
      • Feedback from Rajiv (mentor)
        • Everything goes well
        • UI/UX, search feature with Algolia goes well
      • Feedback from Kris (lead mentor)
      • All requirements for Bonding Period has been done
    • Docker Quickstart – Ashutosh
      • Started late due to exams
      • Bonding Period Requirements
        • Bio completed
        • Project page updated
        • Continue work on blog post to clarify project description so it is less blurred
          • Try to cater to people with no technical background as well
      • Feedback from Bruno
        • Thanks JMM for the blog post review
    • GitLab plugin modernisation – Harsh
      • Requirements for Bonding Period fulfilled
      • Project plan completed
        • Contributor bio
        • Project page update
        • Blog post
      • Working toward first milestone
      • Ongoing discussion on Gitter
  • Everybody is ready to start actual coding next week
  • Now we have project plans
  • Global milestone – Mid-July 2023
    • Evaluations coming up
    • First / midterm presentations will be given by the contributors of 15-minute each in duration to summarize what have been accomplished over the past 6 weeks
    • Mentors are expected to offer guidance and help with this exercise
  • JMM will have one-on-one discussions with mentors and contributors (2nd week of June)
    • To make sure good working relationships have been established
    • To check in to make sure contributors are enjoying GSoC
  • Alyssa will include last year’s midterm presentations links as references in meetings notes: