Jesse Glick will host the next office hour this Wednesday, 11 AM PDT on Workflow. Workflow has been Jesse’s project for the last year or so. If you don’t know what Workflow is, check out these talks about it from past JUCes: June 2014 October 2014 June 2015 This will be a developer-focused session on integrating with Workflow. He’ll discuss things like how to make sure your plugin can...

In the fall of 2011, the very first Jenkins User Conference was held in San Francisco. Over 250 people showed up. It was, to be completely honest, a bit shocking to me - that little project I’d gotten involved with less than three years earlier was big enough, interesting enough, important enough for 250 people to travel from around the world to spend a...

In tomorrow’s Jenkins office hours, Jesse Glick will talk about two topics in the workflow plugin that he has been asked about: Security model: script security, permissions Plugin compatibility: SimpleBuildStep and friends, custom steps, etc. The session should be interesting to anyone using workflow or thinking about using workflow. Jesse is one of the top contributors in the community, so it’d be definitely worth your time!...

Jenkins started with a notion of jobs and builds at heart. One script is one job, and as you repeatedly execute jobs, it creates builds as records. As the use case of Jenkins gets more sophisticated, people started combining jobs to orchestrate ever more complex activities. A number of plugins have been developed to enable all sorts of different ways to compose jobs, and many...

As was discussed some time ago, the workflow summit is being organized, and it’s open for RSVP. Due to the overwhelming demand, I’ve increased the capacity this time to 50, but this is an unconference where everyone needs to participate, which means we really cannot have too many people without changing the dynamics of the event. So please make sure you are willing to participate, as...

+ My apologies for the last minute announcement, but there will be a Jenkins user meet-up in Paris on Sep 10th 7:00pm, which is just next week. The event is hosted by Zenika. You’ll hear from Gregory Boissinot and Adrien Lecharpentier about plugin development, and I’ll be talking about workflow. It’s been a while we do a meet-up in Paris. Looking forward to seeing as many...

Jesse and I will walk through the source code of the workflow plugin, highlights key abstractions and extension points, and discuss how they are put together. If you are interested in developing or retrofitting plugins to work with workflows, I think you’ll find this session interesting. The event will be on Google Hangout tomorrow. The time of the day is the same as usual office hours....

+ As I was alluding to earlier, I was hoping to have a meetup of Jenkins users in London for a while. I’m happy to report that the agenda is final and RSVP is open! The date is September 8th. I’ll talk about my recent chef/puppet integration work in Jenkins. Sven from Perforce will talk about how to leverage Perforce features from Jenkins, and then James...

The other day I was explaining how to implement a new workflow primitive to Vivek Pandey, and I captured it as a recording. The recording goes over how to implement the Step extension point, which is the workflow equivalent of BuildStep extension point. If you are interested in jumping on the workflow plugin hacking, this might be useful (and don’t forget to get in touch...

After a very successful JUC Boston we headed over to Berlin for JUC Berlin. I’ve heard the attendance number was comparable to that of JUC Boston, with close to 400 people registered and 350+ people who came. The event kicked off at a pre-conference beer garden meetup, except it turned out that the venue was closed on that day and we had to make an...