GSoC 2021 Project Ideas

This page aggregates project ideas for Google Summer of Code 2021. See more information about this project and applications on the Jenkins Google Summer of Code page .

Below you can find project ideas which have been proposed for this year. New ideas may be proposed by interested mentors or students (e.g. new features in the core, "write a plugin for MY_TOOL_OR_SERVICE", etc.). Project ideas without potential mentors will be considered though applicants may need to work with the community and GSoC org admins to find mentors. To add a new project idea, see: proposing project ideas .

Accepted ideas

Below you can see the list of project ideas that fully match the Jenkins' project idea standard. The scope of these ideas is well known and we don't normally expect deep changes. All ideas have quick start guidelines and newbie-friendly issues referenced. We welcome contributors to join the mentor teams, and we invite students to submit project proposal applications in relation to these ideas.

Project	Category	Skills to study/improve
Automatic Specification Generator for Jenkins REST API Find and implement the extraction of the REST APIs from the sources and generate and publish the REST APIs respective documentation. Potential Mentor(s): Kristin Whetstone Oleg Nenashev 赵晓杰(Rick) Sumit Sarin	Plugins	Java, REST API, OpenAPI / Swagger
CloudEvents plugin for Jenkins Be able to listen to and emit cloudevents from Jenkins.. Potential Mentor(s): Vibhav Bobade Mauricio Salatino	Plugins	Java, Cloudevents sdk, Networking
Git credentials binding for sh, bat, and powershell Allow greater git flexibility from Jenkins Pipelines. Potential Mentor(s): Mark Waite Rishabh Budhouliya Jeff Pearce Justin Harringa	Plugins	Java, Git
Custom Jenkins distribution service improvements Improve the out of the box solution for packaging Jenkins distributions as WAR files or Docker images. Potential Mentor(s): Sladyn Nunes Kristin Whetstone	Tools	Java, Web Development, Docker
Security validator for Jenkins Kubernetes Operator Improve security aspects of installing Jenkins plugins in Kubernetes environment.. Potential Mentor(s): Sylwia Brant Jakub Al-Khalili Bartek Antoniak	Plugins	Go, Kubernetes, Bash
Plugin Installation Manager Tool Improvements Introduce new features and improvements in the plugin installation manager. Potential Mentor(s): Oleg Nenashev Sladyn Nunes	Tools	Java, YAML, Command line tools, Package management tool theory
Jenkins Remoting Monitoring Support monitoring of Jenkins remoting networking with open source monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, etc.. Potential Mentor(s): Oleg Nenashev Darshan Kansagara Sladyn Nunes Sumit Sarin	Plugins, Core	Java, Networking, Docker, Prometheus/Grafana/etc.
Tekton Pipelines DSL for Jenkins with the Tekton Client Plugin Manage Tekton resources via Pipeline Steps / Jenkinsfile. Potential Mentor(s): Vibhav Bobade Gareth Evans	Plugins	Java, Kubernetes, Tekton Pipelines

Draft project ideas

Below you can see draft project ideas, which are currently under review. The scope of such ideas may change during the discussions, but the idea is accepted in principle. You are welcome to comment on the draft and to join the project as a mentor. If you are a student, it is also fine to explore and to apply to the draft project ideas.

Project	Category	Skills to study/improve
Pipeline Step Documentation Generator improvements Enhance the Jenkins Pipeline documentation generator to produce better documentation for thousands of Pipeline developers. Potential Mentor(s): Kristin Whetstone Mark Waite Oleg Nenashev	Dev Tools	Java, Jenkins Pipeline, HTML, CSS, Asciidoc, JavaScript
Semantic Versioning plugin for Jenkins Automatically determine the next semantic version for a repository. Potential Mentor(s): Gareth Evans	Plugins	Java, Semver

Ongoing discussion

These are proposals in the mailing lists which have not been published as project ideas yet. The feasibility is yet to be defined, and the idea may be dismissed depending on the feedback. Everyone is welcome to participate in the discussion and to join as a potential mentor.

Project	Category