[GSoC 2018] [Student Introduction] Cloud Features for External Work-space Manager Plugin

[Tarun Pothulapati]

Hello Everyone,

I am Tarun Pothulapati, I am a second-year Undergrad student in Computer Science and Engineering at Vardhaman College Of Engineering here in Telangana, India.

My interests include Java, C#, Asp.Net, Cloud Computing. 

I have used Jenkins previously to setup my build pipeline for a college project and it really made the whole deployment process very smooth.I am always amazed by the level of automation that Jenkins provides and lets developers focus on the project mainly.

I am very much willing to work on the following project idea as it falls near my interests.

• Cloud Features for External Workspace Manager Plugin.

I also started looking at the issues in the above-mentioned project and will be trying to solve some beginner friendly ones.

I would like to get started on this project. So, any help/suggestions would be really appreciated. 

I am really excited to contribute to Jenkins and give back to the community.

Thank You,

Tarun Pothulapati.

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[Oleg Nenashev]

Hi Tarun,

Thanks for the interest!
In the case of this plugin, my recommendation would be to start from one of the External Workspace Manager open issues.
It would help you to study the codebase.

Best regards,
Oleg Nenashev

[Vineeth Reddy]

I am a newbie in open source community but i feel i am capable enough to understand and give back to community my best. 

I am interested in working with "CLOUD FEATURES FOR EXTERNAL WORKSPACE MANAGER PLUGIN. "

I spent decent time on understanding project and would like to look into it more detail.

As application closes in 11 days. I am unable to contribute much in prior but would like to make it this summer.

Please guide with through additional info, resources on this project and ways to selected for this project and in starting  the contribution right away.

I feel its great to associate with jenkins and starting off by open source journey. 

Thank you!!!

Best Regards,

VIneeth.

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[martinda]

Hello Vineeth,

Thank you for your interest.

We have some student information, but it looks like you have already read it: https://jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/students/
If you find something is missing please let us know.

If you have already studied the external workspace manager code base and know the extension points, then I recommend familiarizing yourself with cloud based storage, for example azure, amazon, google, etc. This should help you write your project proposal.

Best Regards,
Martin d'Anjou

[martinda]

I forgot to mention that we have office hours and all students are invited to participate and ask questions about GSoC.
See https://jenkins.io/projects/gsoc/#office-hours for the times.

Martin

[martinda]

Hi,

I should also mention that there are videos that explain how the external workspace manager plugin works.

These provide good starting points for understanding from the user point of view.

1. Lightning talk (Jenkins World 2016): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZaCngHQaO4

2. GSoC 2016 final presentations (first presentation is the external workspace manager plugin): https://youtu.be/lo8sZJt2WhM?t=404

Martin

[Vineeth Reddy]

Definitely I will join office hour to know more about the project and in reference to your previous reply I am quite good in Microsoft azure platform. So I think my knowledge on cloud might help me in completing this project.

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[Vineeth Reddy]

I went through all the resources provided and would like to know more about cloud features required for this project.

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[Oleg Nenashev]

Hi Vineeth,

Generally you tell us. In GSoC mentors propose "project ideas", but students have a freedom to adjust these ideas to their vision and interests. Since you have gone through the linked materials and issues, what is your impression? Which topics would you prefer to work on? Please do not hesitate to ask in JIRA tickets or in this thread if something is not clear.

Best regards,
Oleg Nenashev

[Vineeth Reddy]

I am familiar with java ,maven and Microsoft azure as this project needs some cloud experience.

But I am unable to get on to the implementation part. 

I am new to open source community 

May be am not good enough for the project.

As implementation part is still a challenge to me am unable to come up with timeline part in application.

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[Oleg Nenashev]

Hi Vineeth,

Sorry, I have missed that thread.
If you are familiar with Azure, my recommendation would be to stick to it and to describe storage features available there.

Even if you have concerns about the implementation, my recommendation is to submit a draft so that we can review it and help you with polishing the proposal. There will be also office hours at 6PM UTC today, please feel free to join.

BR, Oleg