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 Users" 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-users/CAPfivLCOOnNQVKSQtORmNmca4OEoZbRE7qS%2BWo%3D8F-5Kk9A6Qw%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
