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really wrong about not losing any data: A further complication was that our backups were pointed at mysql2, which was out-of-date with mysql1,...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...

Mobile is Joining the Party At This Year’s Jenkins User Conference Consider this as a shout out to mobile app developers: You are invited! For the first time, there’s a mobile track at this year’s Jenkins User Conference to discuss the best ways to extend CI/CD to mobile application testing. As agile practices take hold, enterprises are expecting more collaboration between dev and test teams. Dev...

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...

A week ago we reported that Uday is looking at organizing a regular Jenkins meet-up in Silicon Valley. This has made a progress since then, and this evening we’ll get together to figure out logistics for the first meet-up: Time August 5th, Wednesday 6:30 PM - 7:30 PM Location Starbucks, 750 Castro St, Mountain View, CA 94041 The agenda is: Determine the date for the first meet up Speakers for the...

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...

It seems a bit unreal, but the last JUC agenda for 2015 is now online. Jenkins User Conference U.S. West is the last JUC of the year running from September 2-3 in Santa Clara, CA. So, if you haven’t attended JUC yet this year, this is your chance! Register with a friend to take advantage of the community’s 2-for-1 deal and get two tickets for...

Slides and video from JUC Europe are now available online! If you made it to London to attend this year’s JUC Europe, I hope you enjoyed the conference, met plenty of community members and learned more about Jenkins. Now that the slides and video are up, you can revisit your favorite talks or "attend" the ones that you missed…​all at your leisure. If you were unable...