Oleg, I am definitely interested in joining the HW-and-EDA SIG. I do not have an interest in embedded at this time.
What does "driving one of them" imply? I do not want to over-commit and under-deliver. Martin On Monday, January 7, 2019 at 7:33:50 PM UTC-5, Oleg Nenashev wrote: > > Dear all, > > I would like to start two new special interest groups in Jenkins: Embedded > SIG and "Hardware and Electronic Design Automation" (HW and EDA) SIG. Just > to provide some background, I have originally came from the > Hardware/Embedded area, and industry-specific CI/CD is still one of my main > interests. Since JEP-4 "Special Interest Groups" was proposed in 2018, I > have had a number of discussions with Jenkins users in these areas. There > is a LOT of them, Jenkins is a de-facto standard in the industry thanks to > its flexibility and the framework nature. > > Embedded/HW automation engineers are generally less active in Jenkins > user/developer mailing lists, because in many cases their use-cases and > demands differ from the Jenkins community mainstream > (Java/Docker/K8s/etc/etc.). It would be great if we could offer channels > for such area-specific discussions so that we can get more contributors > involved in the community. > > I would like both SIGs to be *user groups* focused on sharing experiences > about Jenkins usage for specific use-cases and in the specific > environments. SIGs may also work on improving documentation (e.g. solutions > pages), and be a contact point for some development activities (plugins for > development tools, etc.). Generally I would like to start from > chats/mailing lists and monthly meetings in both SIGs. > > Why 2 SIGs? Although hardware and embedded use-cases overlap sometimes > (e.g. testing on hardware, mixed design), I lean towards having two > separate SIGs. Embedded SIG would focus on embedded software and high-level > devices for various areas (e.g. Automotive, IoT, etc.) while HW-and-EDA SIG > would focus on the hardware design for ASICs and FPGAs. > > I will appreciate any feedback. If somebody is interested to help > organizing the SIGs and driving them, please let me know. > > Thanks in advance, > Oleg > > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/333e9cfc-fd5e-450a-a9b3-c41a4c6994ee%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
