The latest edition of Continuous Information is out for your reading pleasure. Highlights: Health Check-up for Jenkins: Kohsuke’s Tips on Keeping Jenkins Happy Jenkins continues to take over the world, with more than 65,000 active installations and more than 800 plugins Events: Jenkins User Conference – 10/23 in Palo Alto, CA (use discount code BEE-JUC); Jenkins Scalability Summit 10/24; and more Jenkins made the SD Times 2013 Top 100! What’s...

Your favorite Butler will visit Israel on June 6 for the Jenkins User Conference Israel. More than 200 people have already registered to hobnob with other Jenkins users and eat like kings. The agenda is up here. You’ll find a great list of speakers from Israel, Europe and the US to compliment a plethora of treats. There will be an ice cream break, fruits break,...

Volume 4 of Continuous Information came out last night. It contains insights and highlights from founder Kohsuke, the latest growth stats, upcoming event info, Jenkins resources, and more. Highlights: Jenkins has nearly 20,000 more active installations than it had last June, up from 43,500 to more than 61,000 Nearly 100 plugins have been added since late last Fall when we did the last Jenkins survey. Now there...

This year, the West Coast Jenkins User Conference will be in Palo Alto rather than San Francisco. If you’re nearby — or even if you’re not — join Kohsuke and other fellow developers for a solid day of Jenkins. The Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 The Venue: Palo Alto Jewish Community Center Details Register The Call for Papers is open until June 9 (scroll to bottom of page for form). JUC will be...

The folks at Rebel Labs picked Jenkins as the last installation of their technical report series. It is a beautifully crafted 50 page PDF that covers the overview of the technology. You get to see a bit of details about how ZeroTurnaround uses Jenkins, and it contains a section where I get interviewed by them. Also, while they failed to mention this in the document,...

The last week the Jenkins project has reached a miletone release — Version 1.500. That’s no 1.5 nor 1.5.0. That’s the 501st release since its inception, counting all the way up from 1.0, 1.1 to 1.500. We’ll be celebrating this release in the upcoming FOSDEM conference in Brussels, but I wanted to thank everyone for making this great community possible by participating and using it. Despite...

It is interesting having an open source project that is sufficiently old to start generating "lore" of some form or another. Jenkins is starting to get to be that age, having been started over 6 years ago. One of the most commonly asked questions, is about Jenkins' use of "blue balls" to indicate success by default. This is enough of an "issue" for some users...

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...

I’ve just added three events coming up in the next few weeks to the Jenkins calendar. Conveniently, they are all events I’ll be attending while traveling around Western Europe! The Cologne JUG is having a meetup on Saturday, June 25th, starting at 2pm. We’ll be talking about Jenkins, maybe doing some coding, and then heading out for drinks and more talk! You can find more...

As I had mentioned in a previous post back when Jenkins was called something else, who can remember what anymore, I spent a lot of time working on a mirroring network. With our departure from any and all Oracle infrastructure, this mirroring network has now become our sole distribution mechanism for pushing out all releases and all plugins, in short, lots and lots of...