Historically January has always been a very big month for the Jenkins community. Between FOSDEM Southern California Linux Expo (also known as SCaLE) we seem to hand out more stickers during the last week in January than any other week of the year. This year’s SCaLE 14X conference finally outgrew the LAX Hilton in Los Angeles, where it had been hosted in years past, and moved over to the...

This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong. Alyssa works for CloudBees, helping to organize Jenkins community events around the world. Planning is underway for Jenkins World, a major Jenkins event for developers, release engineers and others interested in automation. The conference will be held from September 13th to 15th in Santa Clara, California and is being organized and sponsored in part by CloudBees. Just like the "Jenkins User Conferences" before it,...

Tom Fennelly will host tomorrow’s office hour on JavaScript in Jenkins. The intended audience for this presentation is core and plugin developers. In his own words: I believe strongly that we can make meaningful user experience improvements to Jenkins, but it will require having more weapons in our arsenal in terms of how we build plugins etc. This is what we’ll be talking about in this week’s...

This is a guest post by Julian Kleinhans, Software Architect at AOE, who is outlining some of the Jenkins dashboard work he’s done with dashing-js Jenkins offers a handful of third party dashboards, but none of them are really beautiful and flexible enough from my point of view. For example, I could not find a solution which gives me the possibility to easily decide which data should be display in the...

Over the past couple months, we have been working on a long overdue Code of Conduct for the Jenkins project (meeting minutes here and here). Following in the footsteps of other projects like the Apache Software Foundation, Go lang and countless others, we have adopted this code of conduct to help set guidelines for what behaviors are acceptable, and what behaviors are not, when acting within the Jenkins community or on behalf of the Jenkins...

When I first started working on the Jenkins website, then called by a different name, I selected Drupal, an extensible content management system, to get the job done. Like Jenkins itself, Drupal is easy to set up, install plugins and authoring content is done in a web UI. For the past seven years Drupal has served us well, but it is time to move on to something better suited...

For the past few years, a couple members of the Jenkins project have made the trip to Los Angeles for the Southern California Linux Expo. Despite the name it’s a fairly broad open source technology conference and since it is hosted prior to FOSDEM, it’s also a good conference to get us in the open source mood after the holiday break. Unlike previous years, when SCaLE was hosted at the...

On December 15, the Toulouse JAM was co-hosted with the Toulouse JUG and Toulouse DevOps. Indeed it made sense since Jenkins is written in Java, makes use of Groovy code in many places (system groovy script, job dsl, workflow…​), and it also made sense to co-organize with the local DevOps community since Jenkins is also a great tool to enable Continuous Integration, Continuous Delivery and automation in general. There were 103 RSVPs, with...