This is a guest post from Tom Fennelly Over the last number of weeks we’ve been trying to "refresh" the Jenkins UI, modernizing the look and feel a bit. This has been a real community effort, with collaboration from lots of people, both in terms of implementation and in terms of providing honest/critical feedback. Lots of people deserve credit but, in particular, a big thanks...

RebelLabs started annual Geek Choice Awards, and Jenkins was one of the 10 winners. See the page they talk about Jenkins. My favorite part is, to quote, "Jenkins has an almost laughably dominant position in the CI server segment", and "With 70% of the CI market on lockdown and showing an increasing rate of plugin development, Jenkins is undoubtably the most popular way to go...

This year marks the 3rd annual Jenkins User Conference in Israel. While the timing of the event turned out to be less than ideal for reasons beyond our control, that didn’t stop 400 Jenkins users from showing up at the "explosive" event at a seaside hotel near Tel Aviv. Shlomi Ben-Haim kicked off the conference by reporting that JUC Israel just keeps getting bigger, and...

Tomorrow in Jenkins office hours, Surya Gaddipati will be going over DotCi, a package of features that integrates Jenkins closely with GitHub, configuration via .ci.yml file in source tree, built-in Docker support and MongoDB backend. I think there’s a number of interesting pieces here that could be split into individual plugins for reuse, and possible alignment with existing efforts like Script Security plugin or Literate...

Following right on the heels of our US-East Jenkins User Conference in Boston, we have JUC Europe in Berlin on June 25. Like the East Coast conference, the Berlin one is almost full, so sign up while you can. Our venue in Berlin is KOSMOS, a building with a fascinating history. The building was inaugurated as a cinema in 1961. With 1001 seats, it was...

Jenkins won SDTimes 100, 2014 For the 5th year in a row, Jenkins project won SDTimes 100, 2014 this year under DevOps and SCM categories, along with other open-source projects like Chef, Docker, Git, LLVM, and Puppet. I’d like to take this opportunity to once again thank the community for keeing us going strong. There’s https://groups.google.com/forum/!topic/jenkinsci-dev/qrG7bAnZSHQ[a lot] of https://groups.google.com/forum/!topic/jenkinsci-dev/zDaX4yiWLLw[interesting] efforts going on in the project, as...

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...

As the Jenkins project grows, the need for our infrastructure has been growing. Our Jenkins-on-Jenkins needs more build agents, we need more servers to run our infrastructure services. And it was once again Rackspace who stepped up to the plate; they have kindly donated us more cloud servers. I also use Rackspace for one of my personal servers, and when I went back to their...

+ Agenda is posted for Jenkins User Conference Boston and Berlin. For Boston, my favorite would be the workflow in Jenkins talk that will cover the new workflow job type Jesse and I are working on. As of this writing it is still very much a work in progress, but that talk is our way of putting a stake on the ground that we WILL have...

We are looking for volunteers to join the small infra team here at the Jenkins project. We are the butlers of the butler that get Mr.Jenkins going. We’ve been managing our servers through puppet, and have been slowly folding pieces one at a time to puppet, but there’s still a lot of snowflake services that need proper operationalization. So to fix them up, PuppetLabs folks generously...