[Project Change for GSoC 2019 Cloud Features for external workspace manager]

[Yufei Zhang]

Hi developers in Jenkins,

I'm Yufei Zhang, a student from GSoC 2019 responsible for 'Cloud Features for External Workspace Manager', here we made some important decision.

According to the reasons in this blog post :  https://github.com/imaffe/jenkins.io/blob/affe-coding-1-blog/content/blog/2019/06/2019-06-06-cloudfeature-gsoc-cp1.adoc  , we decide to not move forward with our oringinal proposal. A brief explanation is that we found the previous project is not within the scope of Jenkins ecosystem, and we can put effort on other projects to provide the same feature to users.

So, we will close down all the tasks related to the oringinal project, and start on JCasC compatiblity with multiple plugins. My lead mentor and me had experience with JCasC in external workspace manager, and Casc is a good feature that can work well with clouds (like other CasC tools including Ansible, Terraform and CloudFormation). The JCasC proposal is here : https://jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/2019/project-ideas/configuration-as-code-compatibility/

We will have a meeting on what plugins to work on in June 12th, 15:00 pm ~16:00pm , we need your opinions and feel free to join. Thanks so much.

BR,

Yufei Zhang.