Last week we hosted our first Hacksgiving event, a two-day virtual hackathon with a number of recorded sessions and plenty of pull requests submitted, I would say it was a success! I would like to thank everybody who took the time to watch, chat and present in the Hacker Hangout. Now that everybody has had time to recover from the turkey and travel, we have...

For the past several years we’ve been attending FOSDEM, a massive free and open source event in Brussels, Belgium. In preparation for this upcoming FOSDEM (2016) event, we will be hosting an open planning meeting via Google Hangouts during this week’s "https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Office+Hours[Office Hours]." Agenda: Gauge who can participate and at what capacity. Pre-FOSDEM Contributor Summit After-hours meetup/happy hour Plans for a Jenkins stand (assuming we’re accepted): What demo materials Schwag Revised Jenkins...

I hope many of you have had a chance to see the Jenkins 2.0 thread. I’m going to use the office hours next Wednesday to go through this proposal. This is still primarily for developers in the project, as it’s "just" a proposal with lots of details unspecified. It’s more meant to help people understand where I’m coming from and what goals I have in mind...

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...

Kubernetes is an open-source project by Google that provides a platform for managing Docker containers as a cluster. In their own words: Kubernetes is an open source orchestration system for Docker containers. It handles scheduling onto nodes in a compute cluster and actively manages workloads to ensure that their state matches the users declared intentions. Using the concepts of "labels" and "pods", it groups the...

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...

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!...

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...

Surya walked us through the dotCI source code yesterday, and a bunch of ideas about how to reuse pieces are discussed. The recording is on YouTube, and my notes are here....

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...