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...

Last week, the first Jenkins Area Meetup (JAM) took place in San Jose, CA on Wednesday, Sept 23. What a way to kick off the first JAM other than to have Docker, John Willis as our guest speaker. John talked about immutable infrastructure and its benefits and role of containers. Kohsuke discussed Jenkins Workflow, the motivation behind the same and latest features of Jenkins Workflow...

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...

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...

Boy, what a day! This is the 5th annual JUC in San Francisco bay area, and the crowd is getting bigger. I brought the LEGO Jenkins + CloudBees logo mosaic that we built at the CloudBees San Jose office: The community booth was very busy. We have people like Dean Yu (board), Andrew Bayer (board), Mark Waite (git), Jesse Glick (workflow and core), Daniel Beck (core),...

Just as in past years, we are running a survey this year, to get some objective insights into what our users would like to see in the Jenkins project. Obviously, the developers in the project deal with individual bug reports and feature requests all the time, but sometimes those day-to-day issues distract you from a bigger picture. This year, we kept some of the questions...

A few years ago, the Jenkins community announced the Jenkins CIA program - the Continuous Integration Ambassador initiative to spread the word of Jenkins. As of recently, there hasn’t been as much activity, so this program needs to be revived! There are over 120,000 active Jenkins installations now and that number just keeps climbing and climbing. It’s important to bring all of us together through...