Beta Release of GitLab Branch Source Plugin

[Parichay Barpanda]

Hi all,

For the past couple of months I have been working on a new GitLab Branch Source Plugin as a part of my Google Summer of Code Project. It has a lot to offer for Jenkins and GitLab intergration.

What new features this plugin provides?

• Mutlibranch Pipeline Job
• Folder Organisation
• Webhooks Support
• Pipeline Status Notifications
• New SCM Traits APIs
• New GitLab API Plugin
• Reduced API calls
• Improved Server Configuration Options
• .. and more!

There were a lot of hiccups on the road but with fantastic support from my mentors and other Jenkins community developers we are able to make our plugin open to testing. You can find the beta release here - https://github.com/jenkinsci/gitlab-branch-source-plugin/releases/tag/gitlab-branch-source-0.0.6-beta-1. 

I would like to request interested developers to test the plugin and report to us any bugs or feature request. You can either join our gitter channel https://gitter.im/jenkinsci/gitlab-branch-source-plugin or create JIRA ticket with `gitlab-branch-source-plugin` component. 

We have a lot more planned for the plugin including build trigger on comment, system hooks support, improve Job DSL configuration etc. Looking forward to your valuable feedbacks.

Special thanks,

Marky Jackson

Justin Harringa

Joseph Peterson

Zhao Xiaojie

Best Regards,

Parichay.