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...

Earlier this month, a full-day event about Jenkins Pipeline was organized in Toulouse, France with the Toulouse JAM. After a warm-up on the previous Tuesday where Michaël Pailloncy had given a talk at the local Toulouse Devops user group about Jenkins Pipeline ecosystem, we were ready for more digging :-). The agenda We had planned the day in two parts: Morning would be a more driven workshop with...

This week we have featured a number of proposals for what we would like to see in "https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+2.0[Jenkins 2.0]", the vision of which is to make Jenkins users more efficient, productive and happy. We started with some more internally facing changes and have slowly progressed from the "inside-out" to today’s topic: improving the out of the box user experience. That is to say, the experience...

We have been featuring a few proposals this week for what "https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+2.0[Jenkins 2.0]" is going to include. Today we’ll be diving into the most noticeable changes being proposed for Jenkins 2.0: the User Experience (UX) improvements Thus far in this blog series we have reviewed proposals covering: Introducing a policy for API deprecation Splitting Groovy out of 'core' Pipeline as code front and center The UX improvements being proposed aren’t...

We have been featuring a few proposals this week for what "https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+2.0[Jenkins 2.0]" is going to include, today we’re discussing my personal favorite, which I believe will have a tremendously positive impact for years to come (not to be too biased!): moving the "Pipeline as Code" support in Jenkins to the front and center. Thus far in this blog series we have reviewed proposals covering: Introducing a...

As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, there’s been a lot of discussion recently about what "https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+2.0[Jenkins 2.0]" means. In a recent "Office Hours" session, Kohsuke Kawaguchi presented his vision for Jenkins 2.0 in a office hours session, the slides for which can be found in this Google Presentation. Roughly paraphrasing Kohsuke’s vision, 2.0 is primarily about making things better for the thousands of users out there. This week, we’ll be reviewing some...

Over the past few weeks there has been a vibrant discussion happening on the jenkinsci-dev@ mailing list as to what "https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Jenkins+2.0[Jenkins 2.0]" means. While Jenkins does not currently adhere to semantic versioning, the change of a major version number does indicate a major milestone for the community. Project founder, Kohsuke Kawaguchi presented his vision for Jenkins 2.0 in a office hours session, the slides for which can be found in this...

This past Thursday, September 24th, 2015, I presented a couple of prototypes of what I hope will be the future of the Jenkins GUI. Or perhaps more correctly, close enough to the future to start generating positive feedback from you the community that improving the Jenkins GUI is important and some pieces that I am showing are going in the right direction. If you...

https://youtu.be/1Qn4jEwAeGc Above is the screencast associated with this blog post If you have ever used Jenkins you are familiar with what I am about to described, wading your way through job configuration page, looking for the settings that are important, and, depending on your plugin use, wondering where all these other setting came from and what they do. Depending on how long you have used Jenkins, your...

+ About two years ago, we bumped our runtime JRE requirement from Java5 to Java6. And so the time has come once again for us to finally move on to Java7. Because of all the new language features, many of us the developers really wanted to move right on to Java8, but after much discussion we settled to move to Java7 first and then to...