+ I recently had an opportunity to visit a big Jenkins user on site, and one of the things they’ve told me is that building projects in the Maven job type is substantially slower than doing the same with the freestyle project type. This is partly expected, because this job type does more for you. For example, it automatically archives your build artifacts, fingerprints all the...

+ If you have agents that connect through Java Web Start (such as agents installed as Windows services), we have a good news for you. In case of a connection loss, this type of agents has been designed to automatically attempt to reconnect to the controller. This makes sense because you want these agents to remain online all the time, even if your janitor trips over...

Over the past three years, the Jenkins User Conference is held annually in the Bay Area with a few events in different locations around the world. The Jenkins User Conference has established a reputation as a focal point for the Jenkins community to come together to share new ideas and best practices. Each year we have experienced the growth and expansion within the Jenkins...

FOSDEM is probably the biggest open-source developers' conference in Europe. This year will be the 3rd year for us to be present in FOSDEM. There will be a bunch of community people, handing out flyers and stickers, showing Jenkins, and generally be available to talk to people! This year, we’ll bring some Jenkins T-shirts to sell, and hopefully some bobble heads as well. So please...

I’m going to visit Sao Paulo once again this weekend to attend the second annual Jenkins users meet-up. It’s a whole day free event Saturday full of Jenkins goodness. You’ll hear from a number of active Jenkins folks, and I’ll be presenting about what CloudBees (where I currently work) has contributed to the Jenkins project, including recent new OSS plugins and some services. I’m also...

It’s been a month now, but I realized that I’ve never posted a wrap-up post of JUC 2013. So in the spirit of "better later than, never", here it goes. First of all, I wanted to thank everyone who came. More than 400 of you came, and another 600 signed up for live streaming of events (and I know some people watched those live streams...

As reported in various places, there was an incident in early November where commits in our Git repositories have become misplaced temporarily by accident. By the mid next week we were able to resurrect all the commits and things are back to normal now. As there are many confusions and misunderstandings in people’s commentary, we wrote this post to clarify what exactly happened and what...

This is a guest post from Alyssa Tong, who drives JUC organizations around the world. If you missed JUC Palo Alto on Oct 23, 2013 the videos are now available. We are off to planning JUC 2014. It is hard to believe this will be the 4th annual JUC in the Bay Area. The growth in the Jenkins community since the first JUC is astounding. Every year...

In the hope of streamlining account creation e-mail delivery and mailing list moderations, I have deployed SPF and DKIM over the weekend for e-mails coming out of @jenkins-ci.org, which includes account appliations, Confluence, and JIRA. I’ve also used this opportunity to switch back the sender of JIRA notifications to noreply@jenkins-ci.org. It was originally this way, then changed to jenkinsci-no-reply@googlegroups.com when someone complained (on what ground...

+ The day after Jenkins User Conference, we held a smaller meet-up of serious large-scale Jenkins users dubbed as "Jenkins Scalability Summit". In this Open Space Technology style event, we went over war stories from users. Just to show the degree of seriousness, some of those people run 1500+ agents, and others run Jenkins in HA configuration with a data center fail over! We then picked...