2020 is going to be a year of change for me. By the end of January, I’ll be officially stepping back from Jenkins, switching my role at CloudBees to an advisor, and turning attention to my new startup. The rest of this post is to contextualize this transition, because if you haven’t been working closely with me, this might come across as a surprise. Jenkins has been an amazing...

This is a repost of the original announcement made by Kohsuke Kawaguchi in the Jenkins Developer mailing list. Minor changes were applied to reflect the posting date and to provide more links. Nominations for the 2019 Jenkins Board elections open for three governing board positions and five officer positions, namely: Security, Events, Release, Infrastructure and Documentation. The terms of office for these positions are: Officer positions (1 year):...

Today Linux Foundation, along with CloudBees, Google, and a number of other companies, launched a new open-source software foundation called Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF.) The CDF believes in the power of Continuous Delivery, and it aims to foster and sustain the ecosystem of open-source, vendor neutral projects. Jenkins contributors have decided that our project should join this new foundation. This discussion happened over a period...

The end of a year is a great time to step back from the daily grind to look at the big picture. Across the industry, the relentless march toward more automation still continues on. We are writing software faster than ever, but the demand for software seems to be going up even more, and I feel more and more businesses and executives are keenly aware...

Kohsuke here. This is a message for my fellow Jenkins developers. Jenkins has been on an amazing run, but I believe we are trapped in a local optimum, and losing appeal to people who fall outside of our traditional sweet spot. We need to take on new efforts to solve this. One is “cloud native Jenkins” that creates a flavor of Jenkins that runs well on...

Lately, perhaps subtle but exciting changes are starting to happen in the Jenkins project. The past few weeks have seen the birth of two new initiatives in Jenkins: Jenkins Essentials and Jenkins X. Each is exciting in its own right, and I encourage interested parties to take a look at their goals and missions and participate in them. But in this post, I want to discuss why together...

Jenkins World is approaching fast, and the event staff are all busy preparing. I’ve decided to do something different this year as part of my keynote: I want to invite a few Jenkins users like you come up on stage with me. There have been amazing developments in Jenkins over the past year. For my keynote, I want highlight how the new Jenkins (Pipeline as code with the Jenkinsfile, no...

The Jenkins project has learned that a company is trying to register "Jenkins" as a trademark in Colombia. This is alarming for us, and we are trying to oppose it. In order to do this effectively, we need to hear from Colombian users of Jenkins. Figure 1. South American visitors to jenkins.io for 2017 The Jenkins project owns a trademark "Jenkins" in the U.S., through a...

Jenkins World, September 13-15 at the Santa Clara Convention Center (SCCC), takes our 6th annual community user conference to a whole new level. It will be one big party for everything Jenkins, from users to developers, from the community to vendors. There will be more of what people always loved in past user conferences, such as technical sessions from users and developers, the Ask the Experts booth and plugin development...

It’s been almost three months since we’ve released Jenkins 2.0, the first ever major version upgrade for this 10 year old project. The 2.x versions since then has been adopted by more than 20% of the users, but one segment of users who haven’t seen the benefits of Jenkins 2 is those who has been running LTS releases. But that is no more! The new...