Jenkins Community Contests: Bring Me Some Bugs, Bug Bounty

CloudBees is committed to supporting the ongoing growth, maturity and viability of the Jenkins Continuous Integration (CI) platform. CloudBees also wants to promote engagement amongst the Jenkins community. Therefore, in support of these goals, CloudBees is sponsoring two contests to help identify and resolve bugs in the Jenkins CI platform. The reporting and resolution of bugs improves the platform for the benefit of the entire Jenkins Community.

The two contests, announced at the Jenkins User Conference, San Francisco, are:

  1. Bug Bounty - ended 12/31/2011
  2. Bring Me Some Bugs - ended 11/30/2011

Bottom line: YOU can win cool stuff just for doing something you were going to do anyway. For details about both contests, please see below. 

Good luck bounty hunting—and watch out, bugs!

  

Contest Winners!

Kudos to all of the contest entrants - you each contributed to improving the quality of the Jenkins CI server platform. You are all winners within the Jenkins Community!

 

Bring Me Some Bugs: (1) Kindle Grand Prize Winner

 

 

Congratulations to Michael Smith, Canadian Bank Note Company! Michael was the Grand Prize Winner for Bring Me Some Bugs. He won a Kindle 3G for his efforts in submitting a bug to the Jenkins community.

 

 

 

 

Bug Bounty: (2) iPad2 Grand Prize Winners

 

Congratulations to Jacob Robertson, SAIC! Jacob was one of two Grand Prize Winners in the Bug Bounty contest. Jacob won an iPad2 for his efforts in identifying and resolving a bug in the Jenkins platform. (Jacob is clearly surfing some amazing websites, already, on his iPad!)

Congratulations also to Jorgen Tjerno, Lookout. Jorgen was the second Grand Prize winner in the Bug Bounty contest!

 

 

Great Prizes

You can win fun prizes (see below), just for reporting/resolving Jenkins issues!

                        

Bug Bounty

 

To submit your entry: bugbounty@cloudbees.com

Contest duration: 10/1/2011 – 1/1/2012 (90 days)

 

Congratulations to the Jenkins Community Contest Winners, Contest to Date!

Bug Bounty (by week):

  • October 10 - N/A
  • October 17 - Richard Mortimer - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • October 24 - N/A
  • October 31 - Kai Hackemesser, MetService - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • November 7 - Emeric Vernat - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • November 14 - Christoph Kutzinski, eSailors IT Solutions - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • November 21 - Ghenadie Dumitru - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • November 28 - Thorsten Heit, Versicherungskammer Bayern - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • December 5 - Vitalii Tymchyshyn, Zoral Labs - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • December 12 - Mike Goins, Adtec Digital - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • December 19 - Bradley Wehmeier - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • December 26 - Thorsten Heit - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • December 31 - Brook Stevens - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • December 31 - Jacob Robertson, SAIC - iPad2
  • December 31 - Jorgen Tjerno, Lookout - iPad2
  • Contest ended - THANKS EVERYONE for participating!


Contest Guidelines:

  • An issue and its resolution must be formally reported and entered into the issue tracking system on the Jenkins CI website, between 10/1/2011 and 12/31/2011
  • Once the issue and resolution have been reported, send an email to: bugbounty@cloudbees.com. In the email, include your name, company, phone number, email address and the tracking number assigned to your issue and/or resolution by the issue tracking system on the Jenkins-CI.org website
  • You can either: report a new issue and provide a code fix for it, or opt to contribute a resolution for an open (pre-existing) issue
  • Issues and resolutions must be within Jenkins and/or Jenkins plugins
  • The winners will be randomly drawn; all submissions will have an equal opportunity to win
  • 13 winners will be individually notified after a weekly drawing conducted by CloudBees. Winners will also be announced on Twitter and Facebook
  • Prizes awarded will be:
    • (12) $50 gift certificates to Amazon.com – one each week, for 12 weeks
    • (2) iPads (16 GB, WiFi) - Grand Prize, at the end of the contest
    • Everyone who has contributed throughout the contest will have an opportunity to win the iPads

Bring Me Some Bugs

 

Contest duration: 10/1/2011 – 12/1/2011 (60 days)
**CONTEST HAS NOW ENDED

 

Congratulations to the Jenkins Community Winners!

Bring Me Some Bugs (by week):

  • October 10 - Greg Moy, Electronic Arts - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • October 17 - N/A
  • October 24 - Michael Derazon, Orca Interactive - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • October 31 - Jacob Robertson, SAIC - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • November 7 - Ryan Hess, Rapid7 - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • November 14 - Brian Hicks, Rockfish Interactive - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • November 21 - Jorgen Tjerno, Lookout - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • November 28 - Andrew Kalle, Raintree - $50 Amazon.com gift card
  • November 30 - Michael Smith, Canadian Bank Note Company - iPad2
  • Contest ended - THANKS EVERYONE for participating!


Contest Guidelines:

  • Issues must be formally reported and entered into the issue tracking system on the Jenkins CI website, between 10/1/2011 and 11/30/2011
  • Issues identified must be within Jenkins and/or Jenkins plugins; previously entered issues are not eligible
  • The winners will be randomly drawn; all submissions have an equal opportunity to win
  • Eight winners will be individually notified after a weekly drawing conducted by CloudBees. Winners will also be announced on Twitter and Facebook
  • Prizes awarded will be:
    • (8) $50 gift certificates to Amazon.com – one each week, for eight weeks
    • (1) Kindle (3G, WiFi) – Grand Prize, at the end of the contest
    • Everyone who has contributed throughout the contest will have an opportunity to win the Kindle