Jenkins User Conference in Israel was held this year on a different venue than the last year, because we have grown! I believe Shlomi Ben-Haim of JFrog said in his opening speech that the attendance has grown more than 50%, despite the ticket price increase. This year, the event was held at a former Kibbutz turned into an event facility. This was rather fit for...

This Wednesday’s Jenkins office hours is all about the Git plugin refactoring that’s going on. Git plugin is one of the most popular plugins out there, and it’s been around for quite some time. Combine that with the fact that there are so many different ways to use Git, it was inevitable that Git plugin became quite a capable but complex plugin over time. It...

As the usage of Jenkins expands, we started seeing users who run multiple 100s of agents on one controller, and thus it became a lot more important for us to scale well to even larger number of agents. While I was looking at the thread dump of a large system, I started noticing that there are a large number of threads lying around pumping InputStream...

With more than 600 plugins, Jenkins has a vibrant community and we’re dependent on YOU to keep it that way. Here are 3 ways you can give back to the community to ensure that everyone benefits and Jenkins keeps growing…​ Giving it back to the community #1: vendor+community=win Jenkins is becoming ubiquitous enough that tool vendors and service providers often find their users asking them to...

It’s been a while we had a hackathon in Germany. Let’s get together, get some coding done, and get to know fellow Jenkins developers! The date is June 15th Saturday. TNG Technology Consulting, where Stefan Wolf (dependency graph viewer plugin, etc) works, will be hosting us (thanks!) We’ll try to arrange some themes or agenda, based on who’s coming and how many of us will be...

_ Guest post by Yury V. Zaytsev and Abigail Morrison. To download the PDF file of the journal article mentioned below, click here!_ As recently exemplified by several reports on this blog, automation tools such as continuous integration servers, that help to defuse the exploding complexity of software under the ever-increasing pressure to deliver, are steadily gaining well-deserved mindshare in the industry. However, it is not just...

If you are coming to Game Developers Conference in the week of 25th, or if you are local to San Francisco bay area, come join us to the small drink up in the evening of 26th at 21st amendment. If you are coming, please RSVP so that we know how many to expect, and we can stay connected....

The folks at Rebel Labs picked Jenkins as the last installation of their technical report series. It is a beautifully crafted 50 page PDF that covers the overview of the technology. You get to see a bit of details about how ZeroTurnaround uses Jenkins, and it contains a section where I get interviewed by them. Also, while they failed to mention this in the document,...

The last week the Jenkins project has reached a miletone release — Version 1.500. That’s no 1.5 nor 1.5.0. That’s the 501st release since its inception, counting all the way up from 1.0, 1.1 to 1.500. We’ll be celebrating this release in the upcoming FOSDEM conference in Brussels, but I wanted to thank everyone for making this great community possible by participating and using it. Despite...

People in far eastern countries use languages that are quite different from English, and live in a time zone that’s largely incompatible from the U.S./Europe time. So naturally these folks tend to keep things to themselves. That’s why I’ve been wanting to do a meet-up in Seoul for some time, yet I didn’t know anyone there to get one going. That changed in Jenkins User...