It is just turning into a video heavy week isn’t it? First the videos from the Munich Meetup were made available, and now the videos from the first ever Jenkins User Conference. The full list of slides and videos can be found on this page, hosted by CloudBees who did a phenomenal job helping to organize and host the conference. I want to thank everybody...

Better late than never right? Back in June, during his world tour, Andrew Bayer stopped by Munich to participate in a Jenkins Meetup along with Dr. Ullrich Hafner. Andrew gave a talk titled "The State of Jenkins" (slides) and Ullrich talked about "Static Code Analysis with Jenkins" (slides) You can view the videos on this page hosted by TNG. Thanks to Stefan Wolf for the heads up!...

Recently, Jenkins Interim Governance Board member and core contributor, Andrew Bayer sat down with Tim O’Brien to discuss the Jenkins project. You can watch the video on YouTube or via the embed below....

Apologies for the late notice, I think most of us have been pre-occupied with that fantastic Jenkins User Conference. While there are plenty of folks in town for JavaOne, I wanted to host a meetup/dinner at Cafe Chaat here in San Francisco. If you’re coming from JavaOne directly, use these directions If you’re coming from Oracle OpenWorld, use these directions Kohsuke will be in attendance as will...

Since the end of April, Jenkins has been officially part of the SPI (Software in the Public Interest), an umbrella organization which offers a useful level of legal status for the project. Up until recently we had not taken proper advantage of this new legal umbrella, thankfully that’s changed as we’re now capable of accepting donations! For the project this is a big step forward as it will allow us to...

A couple of months ago Jenkins embarked on an new project, the Jenkins "LTS" (Long Term Support) release line. A LTS branch of development is common in most major open source projects, especially those with substantial corporate adoption, so this was a great step for the project as a whole. We’re now coming up on the second LTS release, which will be an incremental update to the previous one (1.409.1)...

We’ve done meetups, we’ve done sessions, we’ve done workshops, now it’s about time we went ahead and did user conference don’t you think? Our pals over at CloudBees (Harpeet specifically) have taken the initiative in starting to organize just that: a Jenkins User Conference on October 2nd. If you have your calendar at the ready, you’ll notice that October 2nd is the Sunday before JavaOne kicks...

Let me preface this entire post with this: I love Contegix. While working on some infrastructure tasks I had long-since put-off for the Jenkins project, I noticed something this weekend that scared the hell out of me. At some undetermined time, our MirrorBrain installation stopped redirecting to our mirror network. Absolutely zero downloads were being redirected, meaning that cucumber, the 1U machine graciously colocated by Contegix had served up far more bits than...

This post is long over-due and I really apologize for that. Some months ago we put out the call for "more agent machines!" through the mailing lists, sky-writers and twitter. We had a serious problem, for a continuous integration project, a large number of our plugins and dependencies weren’t being built in a continuous and automated fashion! We had some builds on a couple of flakey machines on home...

[Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Jenkins community member Tom Rini] Alternatively: How to make your parallel jobs kick one last job at the end Many of us have had occasion to think: "I could make this project build quicker if I could just run parts in parallel and then one final job to wrap it up." Well, good news! Jenkins is here to help!...