Mark Waite
Mark is a member of the Jenkins governing board, a long-time Jenkins user and contributor, a core maintainer, and maintainer of the git plugin, the git client plugin, the platform labeler plugin, the embeddable build status plugin, and several others. He is one of the authors of the "Improve a plugin" tutorial.
Alpha-Omega has provided a grant for three months of full-time work to improve the Jenkins implementation of Content Security Policy. The improvements will be implemented in October, November, and December of 2024. Shlomo Dahan is implementing the improvements with technical guidance from Basil Crow and project management support from Bruno Verachten. Alpha-Omega is an associated project of the OpenSSF, established in February 2022,...
Candidate nominations for the 2024 Jenkins elections are now complete. Thanks to everyone who submitted nominations and to the candidates that have accepted the nominations. Register to vote Voters must register an account on the Jenkins community forums and must have made at least one contribution to Jenkins before September 1, 2024. You can use an existing GitHub account or create a new account...
Hacktoberfest is back! Join us as we celebrate and support open-source during October. Contributors can earn badges and improve their open source contribution skills. The Jenkins community will participate once again in the event. We invite you to contribute to Jenkins projects but also, as maintainers, to welcome and help newcomers. Contributors This is what contributors need to know to participate and complete Hacktoberfest: Register anytime between...
Voter registration has started for the 2024 Jenkins Governance Board and Officer elections! Voter registration Nominations for the 2024 Jenkins Governance Board and Officer elections have finished. Voter registration opened September 16, 2024 and closes on October 31, 2024. Participation in the election process requires registering an account on the Jenkins community forums and at least one contribution made before September 1, 2024. When registering,...
We are excited to announce the 2024 Jenkins Governance Board and Officer elections! Nominations Nominations can be submitted for governance board positions and all officer positions (Security, Events, Release, Infrastructure, and Documentation). During the registration period, we invite community members to nominate candidates by sending a message to the election-committee group. In your message, please include the name of the nominee, the specific position...
Microsoft Azure has donated $60,000 in cloud credits to the Jenkins project. We thank them most sincerely for their donation and for their continuing support of open source software projects like Jenkins. The Jenkins project uses Microsoft Azure cloud to provide a wide range of services, including all the Jenkins controllers that build Jenkins core, Jenkins components, and over 1000 Jenkins plugins. Microsoft...
Amazon Web Services has donated $60,000 in cloud credits to the Jenkins project. We are especially grateful for their donation and their support of Jenkins. The Jenkins project has used AWS for many years to provide a wide range of services. AWS provides the central distribution point for Jenkins core and Jenkins plugin downloads through the Jenkins update center. We’ve used AWS Graviton servers...
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...