Jenkins User Conference is back to California again! Just like the last two years, this full day event packs talks from Jenkins developers and users, and it would be a great opportunity for Jenkins users to get to know each other and share their experiences. The agenda is already posted, covering everything from robotics to mobile developments, effective management of Jenkins instances to branching techniques. I’m...

Seize the opportunity to join the Jenkins community! Just like last year, the Scandinavian Jenkins Conference will be in Copenhagen, Denmark, hosted by Praqma and sponsored by CloudBees, Sony, Switch::Gears, and PRQA. The open source community will gather on September 6th for a full day of networking and knowledge sharing at The Department of Computer Science at The University of Copenhagen. Based on last year’s success,...

+ Jenkins comes with the remoting library that it uses to communicate between a controller and agents. This is a pretty awesome library, I think, which served us well. One of the things this remoting layer does it to transfer the Java byte code on demand from the controller to agents on demand. This approach helps us keep agent deployment simple, as you don’t have to...

Jenkins User Conference in Israel was held this year on a different venue than the last year, because we have grown! I believe Shlomi Ben-Haim of JFrog said in his opening speech that the attendance has grown more than 50%, despite the ticket price increase. This year, the event was held at a former Kibbutz turned into an event facility. This was rather fit for...

This Wednesday’s Jenkins office hours is all about the Git plugin refactoring that’s going on. Git plugin is one of the most popular plugins out there, and it’s been around for quite some time. Combine that with the fact that there are so many different ways to use Git, it was inevitable that Git plugin became quite a capable but complex plugin over time. It...

As the usage of Jenkins expands, we started seeing users who run multiple 100s of agents on one controller, and thus it became a lot more important for us to scale well to even larger number of agents. While I was looking at the thread dump of a large system, I started noticing that there are a large number of threads lying around pumping InputStream...

Your favorite Butler will visit Israel on June 6 for the Jenkins User Conference Israel. More than 200 people have already registered to hobnob with other Jenkins users and eat like kings. The agenda is up here. You’ll find a great list of speakers from Israel, Europe and the US to compliment a plethora of treats. There will be an ice cream break, fruits break,...

Volume 4 of Continuous Information came out last night. It contains insights and highlights from founder Kohsuke, the latest growth stats, upcoming event info, Jenkins resources, and more. Highlights: Jenkins has nearly 20,000 more active installations than it had last June, up from 43,500 to more than 61,000 Nearly 100 plugins have been added since late last Fall when we did the last Jenkins survey. Now there...