[Jenkins-events] Hacktoberfest - Do we want to participate?

[Owen B. Mehegan]

The gitlab-plugin happens to be one which uses the GitHub issue tracker 
rather than JIRA. It's what the original author went with, and the 
current group of maintainers (including me) all prefer it over JIRA. We 
have lots of open issues, some for minor bugs and some for minor up to 
major feature requests. Robin Müller does the bulk of the coding on it, 
while I try to triage new issues and PRs. I would say that the codebase 
is clean and well-organized, and our maintainers are active. At Jenkins 
World there seemed to be a lot of interest in GitLab support, and 
Cloudbees has expressed a desire for feature parity between GitLab, 
GitHub, and Bitbucket, in Jenkins. So this might be one Jenkins-related 
thing that we could encourage folks to hack on.

On 09.29.2016 08:29, Oleg Nenashev wrote:
>> Personally I don't want to encourage more plugins to use GitHub
> Issues compared
> to JIRA (because JIRA, as awful as it is, is still a much better
> tool).
> 
> Yeah, "fortunately" should have been tagged as <sarcasm>. We
> definitely do not want to convert any existing projects to use GitHub
> issues just for this fest of course.
> 
>> I think we can "support" Hacktoberfest by tweeting about it and
> perhaps encouraging JAMs to host Hacktoberfest-type events to hack on
> Jenkins bugs?
> 
> Yep. But we're mostly interested in growing our own community, and it
> could be also an opportunity.
> 
> BR, Oleg
> 
> 2016-09-29 17:12 GMT+02:00 R. Tyler Croy <tyler at monkeypox.org>:
> 
>> (replies inline)
>> 
>> On Thu, 29 Sep 2016, Oleg Nenashev wrote:
>> 
>>> UPD: in order to get Jenkins project listed on their site, we need
>> issues
>>> to be labeled in GitHub. I'm not sure it works for PRs. But
>> fortunately we
>>> have some plugins with GitHub-based issue tracking
>> 
>> "fortunately" :P
>> 
>> Personally I don't want to encourage more plugins to use GitHub
>> Issues compared
>> to JIRA (because JIRA, as awful as it is, is still a much better
>> tool).
>> 
>> I think we can "support" Hacktoberfest by tweeting about it and
>> perhaps
>> encouraging JAMs to host Hacktoberfest-type events to hack on
>> Jenkins bugs?
>> 
>> - R. Tyler Croy
>> 
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