# Pipeline Help - Abigail Afi Gbadago - She Code Africa **URL:** \ **Category:** Contributing\ **Tags:** she-code-africa\ **Created:** [May 21, 2022, 1:40am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/pipeline-help-abigail-afi-gbadago-she-code-africa/2505 "2022-05-21T01:40:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![afi\_maame](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/82dd89/32.png) [@afi\_maame](https://community.jenkins.io/u/afi_maame)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2022, 1:40am UTC](https://community.jenkins.io/t/pipeline-help-abigail-afi-gbadago-she-code-africa/2505/1 "2022-05-21T01:40:22Z")
**Introduction** Abigail Afi Gbadago is my name and I am a Software Engineer(on the Backend) from Ghana. I love spending my time contributing to and building tech communities. At the beginning of the year, I decided to be intentional about contributing to Open Source and Technical Writing ([bit.ly/3qJ2vce](http://bit.ly/3qJ2vce)) so I applied for the SheCodeAfrica Contributhon Cohort 2 and got the opportunity of being selected. I was assigned to the Jenkins Pipeline Help Project. **Jenkins Pipeline Project Help** **Jenkins** is a self-contained, open source Automation Server which can be used to automate all sorts of tasks that revolve around building, testing and deployment of software. A **pipeline** is a set of plugins that help you implement continuous integration and delivery into Jenkins. **CI/CD** (Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery) simply represents the process of getting code/software from version control systems like Git or Bitbucket right through to your users. The Jenkins Pipeline Steps Reference and Pipeline online help need more examples; step return values need to be described, and arguments need more description of their purpose, allowed values and expected results. - This project aims to improve the documentation of pipeline steps and their arguments while introducing Jenkins Pipeline, Jenkins plugin development, Jenkins documentation as code, and the concepts of GitHub forks and pull requests. **Summary of the BootCamp** The BootCamp started on the 5th of April, 2022 with an onboarding call where the Open-Source Programs Manager at She Code Africa, Zainab Abubakar congratulated us and gave in-depth information about the program. We were introduced to our projects, mentors and mentees. I was paired with Sophia Okito to work on the Jenkins Pipeline Project with Mark E. Waite as my mentor. Subsequent meetings were scheduled to track progress and contributions. **Challenges Faced** Initially, the Pipeline build step plugin showed that my Maven was not working so I had to reinstall Maven and confirm that it was working. Also, I faced some issues with Windows Subsystem for Linux(WSL) and setting up my Jenkins Service (it was a bit tricky). These and other issues were resolved with the help of my mentor @MarkEWaite who is very helpful and patient, always willing to schedule calls to solve issues. **Experience gained** I have sharpened my skills with regard to reading technical documentation effectively. I learned a lot more about the Jenkins Pipeline and about building pipelines with the Snippet Generator which is a handy tool I discovered. I also got to explore Blue Ocean and I contributed to improving the documentation of pipeline steps and their arguments. To see my contributions on Github, [click here](https://github.com/AfiMaameDufie) I improved upon my technical skills and valuable soft skills such as communicating effectively(not being shy to ask for help), getting feedback, and collaborating with my teammate Sophia Okito and asking the right questions in order to get clarity or help. **Feedback** I believe reading a bit about the project or tool you are working on (which in my case is Jenkins) will be helpful so that you have a bit of familiarity. Also, there should be more materials on setting up, especially on Windows since that can be challenging. **Next Steps** This has been a great experience. I would like to thank the SheCodeAfrica community for this opportunity to be an Open Source Contributor. A big thank you to @MarkEWaite and @poddingue, my mentors who have been so awesome and of great help during this contribution period and to my teammate Sophia who has been a great team player. I look forward to contributing to this project after this boot camp.