I'm Mark Waite. I'm a Jenkins contributor. I’ll be unavailable or have significantly reduced availability to help in the Jenkins project for at least eight weeks beginning Wednesday, June 9, 2021.
I have been accepted to donate a kidney to my brother’s son. He’s the father of three children and has a genetic disorder that is causing his kidneys to fail. The transplant team tells us that providing him one of my kidneys will allow him to live a longer, more productive life. I need help to fill the roles that I perform for the Jenkins project while I’m unavailable. This message is my request for help. *Where you can help* We want to spread knowledge around the Jenkins community. We want others to be able to help the project in ways that are interesting to them and helpful for the community. This kidney donation is an opportunity for others to learn new things about the Jenkins project and to use those skills to help. Areas that need help are listed below. These are also areas where we’ve wanted to broaden to allow more people to help. We hope that volunteers will assist and will continue helping even after I return. *Mentor a Google Summer of Code project* I’m one of the mentors for the Google Summer of Code project, “Git credentials binding for pipeline” <https://www.jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/2021/project-ideas/git-credentials-binding-for-pipeline/>. We have two very capable mentors, Justin and Rishabh, but prefer to have three mentors for each project. This mentor needs to have experience with Jenkins plugin development and with git authentication techniques (both private key and username/password). Send an email message to the Jenkins GSoC mailing list - https://groups.google.com/g/jenkinsci-gsoc-all-public if you’d like to be considered as an additional mentor for the Google Summer of Code project, “Git credentials binding for pipeline” <https://www.jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/2021/project-ideas/git-credentials-binding-for-pipeline/> . *Lead the Platform SIG meeting* The Jenkins Platform Special Interest Group meets every two weeks to discuss topics related to platform support. Those topics have included hardware support, operating system support, Docker image updates, JDK versions, and more. We need a volunteer to lead the Platform SIG meeting, take the notes of the meeting, and upload the recording of the meeting to the Jenkins YouTube channel. Contact me if you’re interested in helping with the Platform SIG. *Maintain the Jenkins Docker images* The Jenkins Docker images include images for the controller, the inbound agent, the ssh agent, and other images. We need more maintainers for the Jenkins Docker images. The best way to help with maintaining images is to review and comment on the existing pull requests. *Scribe for the UX SIG meeting* The Jenkins User Experience Special Interest Group meets every two weeks to discuss topics related to the Jenkins user interface and the Jenkins user experience. We need one or more volunteers to take the notes of the User Experience SIG meetings and upload the meeting recordings to the Jenkins YouTube channel. Contact me if you’re willing to act as the scribe of the Jenkins UX SIG. *Review Jenkins bug reports and help users* Many Jenkins users submit bug reports in hopes of finding a solution to a problem they are encountering. If you are willing to spend time to help other Jenkins users, the issues in the Jenkins core maintainers attention <https://issues.jenkins.io/secure/Dashboard.jspa?selectPageId=20340> list would be greatly benefited by additional people willing to offer assistance. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/b7bdc094-2bb7-4cef-b705-670194e2b910n%40googlegroups.com.
