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Jenkins

Jenkins, build great things at any scale

Short description: Jenkins is a popular open source automation server which is used for building, testing, CI/CD, deployment and many other use-cases. Our motto is "Build great things at any scale". Long description: Jenkins, originally founded in 2006 as "Hudson", is one of the leading automation servers. Jenkins' motto is "Build great things at any scale". Using an extensible, plugin-based architecture, developers have created hundreds of plugins to adapt Jenkins to a multitude of build, test, and deployment automation workloads. As Jenkins is open-source, MIT License is used for most of the components. This year we invite potential GSoC contributors to join the Jenkins community and to work together to improve Jenkins. We have many strategic project ideas which are important to potentially hundreds of thousands of Jenkins users. The project has over 600 active contributors working on Jenkins core, plugins, website, project infrastructure, localization activities, etc. In total we have more than 2,000 components including plugins, libraries, and various utilities. The main languages in the project are Java, Groovy and JavaScript, but we also have components written in other …

  • javascript
  • java
  • go
  • docker
  • kubernetes
  • developer tools
  • automation
  • continuous integration
  • continuous delivery
  • devops

Project ideas

8 ideas on its 2026 ideas page.

  1. AI Chatbot to Guide User Workflow , Develop an AI-powered chatbot integrated into Jenkins to assist
  2. Continue AI-Powered Chatbot for Quick Access to Jenkins Resources , Develop an AI-based chatbot to p
  3. Continue Jenkins docs sites retooling , Using alternative tooling with Vite and Antora to build the
  4. Jenkins email notifications using Outlook SMTP with OAuth , Using a modern and secure method to send
  5. Plugin Modernizer Stats Visualization , Build a public, static visualization site that consumes the
  6. Retool Jenkins.io Contributor Spotlight website , Migrate and redesign the Jenkins.io Contributor Sp
  7. Retool jenkins.io website Success Stories , To revamp jenkins.io website's Success Stories feature t
  8. Use OpenTelemetry for Jenkins Jobs on ci.jenkins.io , To help enhance observability of Jenkins jobs

Read the ideas page. Ideas are for scope reference; never copy one into a proposal.

History

In GSoC since 2016, 9 years. Projects per year: '16: 1, '18: 2, '19: 5, '20: 7, '22: 4, '23: 4, '24: 5, '25: 5, '26: 5.

On GitHub

84 repositories pushed to in the last year. Main languages: Java (66), PowerShell (3), Python (3), Shell (3), Groovy (2), Kotlin (1).

Links and channels

go deeper in your terminal
git-into-gsoc org "Jenkins" --shortlist
git-into-gsoc repos "Jenkins"
git-into-gsoc issues --org "Jenkins"
or ask your assistant:
"Which Jenkins repositories merge
newcomers' pull requests, and which beginner
issues are still free?"

Those commands read live data: which repositories merge outside pull requests, and which beginner issues nobody has claimed. Install in two minutes.