Happy New Years

[Marky Jackson]

2020 has been a rough year for pretty much everyone. So first things first: I want to thank you for being a part of the Jenkins project. Talking to contributors, seeing the growth and the support in our amazing community, and reading tweets and messages have helped keep us going. On behalf of everyone here in the Jackson 5 household, thank you! Happy New Years

Sincerely,

Marky

[Oleg Nenashev]

Happy New Year all!

Indeed it was a very difficult year for everyone, with many events happening in the world. It was not an easy year for the Jenkins community members also, but we kept moving forward. It has been a pleasure to work with everybody in the community, and to participate in so many stories in the community.

Some of the key highlights (please add your own to the thread!):

• Hundreds of first-timer contributors to the community
• Major UI/UX improvements in the Jenkins core, including the landing page, plugin manager, dark theme, and read-only configurations support
• Outreach programs like Google Summer of Code (7 projects), Google Season of Docs, UI/UX hackfest, etc.
• Terminology changes in the project, new Code of Conduct
• Technical debt cleanup: XStream unforking, Acegi Security replacement, etc.
• Continued evolution of the plugin ecosystem, especially in the area of Cloud Native solutions and tool integrations
• Support for more platforms
• Public roadmap for the project
• Continued documentation cleanup and plugin documentation migration
• Graduation in the Continuous Delivery Foundation
• ...

Have a great new year!

Best regards,

Oleg