Surya walked us through the dotCI source code yesterday, and a bunch of ideas about how to reuse pieces are discussed. The recording is on YouTube, and my notes are here....

I’ll be visiting London in early September, and if possible I’d love to organize some get together of Jenkins users/devs. I wonder if anyone is interested in hosting the event? I think it just needs to fit 20 or so people, so all we need is a single conference room somewhere in London. If you think you might be able to help, please drop us...

Tomorrow in Jenkins office hours, Surya Gaddipati will be going over DotCi, a package of features that integrates Jenkins closely with GitHub, configuration via .ci.yml file in source tree, built-in Docker support and MongoDB backend. I think there’s a number of interesting pieces here that could be split into individual plugins for reuse, and possible alignment with existing efforts like Script Security plugin or Literate...

+ We kicked off this year’s Jenkins User Conference world tour in Boston this Wednesday. The event was well-attended with more than 450 people registered and 400+ people showed up. So big thank you for everyone who came! Workflow plugin that Jesse presented was a big hit and lit up twittersphere, and while I was only able to listen to parts of sessions as people had...

Beer_garden_sign-Germany-.jpg/160px--Beer_garden_sign-Germany-.jpg" alt="image"> There’ll be a number of active community people in the event, so let’s take advantages of that and meet up. And there’s no better place to do it than a beer garden in summer! If you are coming to JUC Berlin, I’ve just set up an RSVP page for a beer garden get together the day before, and another dinner afterward. Looking forward to seeing...

+ One of the current efforts under way in the dev list is driven by Tom Fennelly et al, who is working on introducing a series of small ball improvements to the user interface in Jenkins. If this is something you are interested in (and who aren’t?), you should see Kevin Burke’s manifest that sets out the plan of attack, and This mega thread on...

+ If you will be on the US East Coast or in Berlin for JUC, some of the JUC sponsors are organizing separate events called Continuous Delivery Seminar, which might be of interest to you. These events focus more on higher-level business value questions as well as vendor solutions that are difficult in community-focused JUC. New York City on June 19, the day after JUC US...

Jenkins won SDTimes 100, 2014 For the 5th year in a row, Jenkins project won SDTimes 100, 2014 this year under DevOps and SCM categories, along with other open-source projects like Chef, Docker, Git, LLVM, and Puppet. I’d like to take this opportunity to once again thank the community for keeing us going strong. There’s https://groups.google.com/forum/!topic/jenkinsci-dev/qrG7bAnZSHQ[a lot] of https://groups.google.com/forum/!topic/jenkinsci-dev/zDaX4yiWLLw[interesting] efforts going on in the project, as...

Only a few weeks until our Jenkins User Conference US East kicks off in Boston on June 18. Right now more than 300 people have registered and we’ve had to release more tickets! If you will be anywhere near New England on June 18, sign up fast so you don’t miss the fun. + This year marks the butler’s first conference tour to New England. He...

Today on IRC, I was asked how someone new to the project can get started working on Jenkins, when s/he has no particular preference or pet-peeve. This is a good question for which the project should have a canned answer ready, so here is one approach — adopt a plugin! Often, a Jenkins plugin gets developed by someone to scratch his own itch. That person shares...