With more than a thousand public plugins in the Jenkins community now, it should come as no surprise that some of them are no longer actively maintained. Plugin authors move on when they change jobs, or lose interest in the plugin, and that’s fine. Plugins are hosted on the Jenkins project infrastructure after all, and when a maintainer moves on, others can continue their...

Update: This week’s office hour has been canceled. This Wednesday, Sep 23, at 11 am PDT I will host another office hour on Stapler, the web framework used in Jenkins. This time, I’ll show you how structured form submission in Jenkins works, and how Stapler can help you with it. As usual, the office hour will use Hangout on Air, and a limited number of people...

Gus Reiber will host this week’s office hour on Wednesday, 11 AM PDT. He’ll talk about some of the UI/UX improvements in Jenkins that he’s working on, and will answer your questions about it. He’s already given several talks about this, so you can check these out to learn more before the office hour: JUC US East JUC Europe JUC US West There are also some mailing list threads...

Most Jenkins controllers with a distributed build configuration will leverage nodes that run a agent.jar to start an agent. Regardless of whether the agent.jar is launched through a Java Web Start or SSH launcher, the jar will be copied from https://yourserver:port/jnlpJars/agent.jar to the build node. Keeping this jar up to date ensures that it picks up the newest features in a more recent release,...

We’re currently setting up a program to support community members' travel to Jenkins community events. Our goal is to enable more members of the community to meet each other and exchange ideas in person. We’re still hashing out the details, but it’ll be available to every Jenkins community member. Apply, telling us what Jenkins-related event you’d like to attend and how awesome you are, and...

Nicolas De Loof will host an office hour next Wednesday 11 AM PDT on integrating Kubernetes with Jenkins. Kubernetes is an open-source project by Google that provides a platform for managing Docker containers as a cluster. During this session, Nicolas will introduce Kubernetes, explain how it can benefit Jenkins and demonstrate the Kubernetes Plugin. Then he will discuss the design of the Kubernetes plugin and plans...

I recently wrote about the two day outage of our wiki and issue tracker: While this was a rather lengthy outage, it could have been much worse. We lost none of the data, after all. OSUOSL have since published their post mortem. I was really wrong about not losing any data: A further complication was that our backups were pointed at mysql2, which was out-of-date with mysql1,...

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...

As you may have noticed, our wiki and issue tracker were unavailable from Thursday to Sunday last week. What happened? We host parts of our infrastructure at the Open Source Lab at Oregon State (OSUOSL), including the databases for these two services. So far, there’s no post mortem by OSUOSL (they expect to post one later this week), so we need to piece together what...

There’s only a month left until JUC U.S. West on September 2-3! If you’re still on the fence, check out the recaps of JUC Europe talks recently posted to the CloudBees blog. These should give you an idea about the kinds of talks you can expect at a Jenkins User Conference: How to Optimize Automated Testing with Everyone’s Favorite Butler Configuration as Code - The Job...