Hello everyone & a few questions for a students project

[Federico Fiorini]

Hi everyone, 

I am Federico Fiorini and I am currently studying at TU Delft. I am part of a group for the course Software Architecture (Course Link) and we are currently studying the Jenkins software in depth. 

For the second assignment we have to make a pull request (which we already made, #3320, and we already received a review so we're working on it) as well as a complete "Development View" for the project.

In particular, we need to carefully study how the development process goes for Jenkins, and how is it organised in terms of modules (and folders for source code), dependencies between the many modules, and so on.

Since it's very difficult to study the software by only looking at the website and the github page (as we did for the first assignment, more about general information of the case study), we thought that it would have been a great idea to ask a few questions to the developers' community and/or the creator of the project. 

I'll make a bulleted list such that it would be easier to understand which are the answers we're looking for.

• How the source code is organised into modules (and how is it stored as folders) and which are the dependencies between the modules
• Are there any third-party libraries or tools in the code? Where are they used?
• How are security concerns (also in communication between modules) or internalisation managed? 
• Are there any automated tools for build, test and release of the software? Is it possible to have a "release roadmap" to better understand how a new release is made and which steps does the code have to pass? (We will focus this concerning LTS versions)

Thank you in advance for the replies, we are very grateful for any little help received. 

I will also leave a link to the ongoing project : Team-Jenkins

Kind regards,

Federico Fiorini, Jeroen Vrijenhoef, Ka Wing Man

[Oleg Nenashev]

Hi Federico,

Sorry, I have missed this thread. Is this still actual? If yes, I will try to provide responses once the GSoC application period finishes.

Just to follow-up on our discussion about GSoC, Mar 27 16:00 PM UTC is a deadline for proposals.
If you are still interested in the project, please make sure to submit your final proposal by this time.

We will also have the last Q&A office hours today at 18:00PM UTC. Feel free to join if you have any questions.

Best regards,
Oleg Nenashev