Problem
The Crowd 2 Integration from Jenkins is relied on by customers for integration Jenkins with Crowd. The maintenance for this plugin has been in suspension for several years (Sept. 25th, 2018), and the project is currently seeking maintainers.
Note: As of December 2023, the plugin has now been suspended due to their Open Source conditions and the license agreements from Atlassian.
Suggested Solution
The project is currently seeking maintainers. Would it be possible for Atlassian developers to take on this role?
We would also need to consider the Jenkins project governance document.
Why This Is Important
This feature is highly used and could benefit customers who are integrating Crowd and Jenkins. It would also increase the use case for Crowd in organizations using Jenkins.
[CWD-5764] Take Over Maintenance for Crowd 2 Jenkins Plugin
The feature that this plug-in provided is hugely important to us, as it allows us to make the most of both the Atlassian ecosystem and Jenkins. Crowd allows us to define project roles via user groups, and ‘CI team accounts’ via local Crowd accounts not connected to a Windows/Linux user account. These local CI team accounts also have project roles are used within Jenkins instances so we do not depend on individual users (who may leave the company) and allow Jenkins pipelines to integrate with all our Atlassian apps (Jira, Confluence and Bitbucket) on all our networks. This covers thousands of users and pipelines.
I'm not too worried that it hasn't changed in that long...it has been working fine during all that period!