In preparation for Jenkins 100K celebration, I’m going to record a one-time podcast with Dean Yu, Andrew Bayer, and R. Tyler Croy. My current plan is to go over the history of the project, how big the community was back then, how we grow, where we are now, and maybe a bit about future. But if you have any other suggestions/questions that you’d like us to...

Congratulations! The Jenkins project officially went over the 100K active users mark sometime in January. As of January 31, we were at 102,992. YOU are one of the 100K active users! As discussed on a couple recent project meetings, we have designated February 26 as Jenkins Celebration Day. To make some noise, here is what we are doing starting NOW: Write a blog about anything related to...

This is a guest post by Craig Rodrigues The FreeBSD project produces a modern operating system derived from BSD Unix. In the past 6 months, we have set up Jenkins at https://jenkins.freebsd.org/, to continuously build FreeBSD as developers add new code to the project. This has helped us identify and fix build breaks very quickly. We have gone even farther by integrating Jenkins, Kyua, and Bhyve. Kyua is a...

+ One of the challenges of running Jenkins User Conferences is to balance the interest of attendees and the interest of sponsors. Sponsors would like to know more about attendees, but attendees are often weary of getting contacted. Our past few JUCs have been run by making it opt-in to have the contact information passed to sponsors, but the ratio of people who opt-in is...

+ 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...

Over the past 30 days or so, the acceptance test project has made a great progress. This project consists of a reusable harness that can be used by plugin developers and users to write functional test cases. These tests can be run against Jenkins instances that are deployed in all sorts of different ways, and can interact with complex real fixtures. These tests can be...

InfoQ has been running a CI server survey for more than a month now, and here is the current result: + Jenkins has gotten more than 70% of the votes, once again proving the wide adoption among developers. If you are one of those who picked Cruise Control into the "considering" section, I’d encourage you to look around a bit more. You can still vote from their...

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...

This is a guest post by Aske Olsson Extreme feedback is an incredibly powerful way to drive quality and accelerate your developer fast feedback loop. Having eXtreme Feedback Devices (XFDs) hooked up to your Jenkins jobs gives everyone on your team instant insight into the current software state. At customer after customer we’ve seen extreme feedback devices drive significant incremental productivity gains, so about a year...

Git plugin and TFS plugin are calling for interested parties to try out their 2.0 beta binaries before they get released. Git plugin 2.0 contains a major refactoring and UI simplifications, and TFS plugin contains a rewritten polling logic that does not require a workspace. If you think you’d benefit from these changes, please head to their respective beta testing page and try out the new...