After a one week hiatus, we returned to the weekly hack session on a mission light up the sky with fire! Attendees Charles Lowell, Rasheed Abdul-Aziz, Hiroshi Nakamura Discussion/Accomplished How to manage the different ScriptingContainers inside the Jenkins renamed the experimental repo where we’ve been doing all of our development from fog.hpi to the more aptly name [https://github.com/cowboyd/jenkins-ruby-plugins-playground] started a separate gem for housing the support libraries for jenkins here...

A few weeks ago our very own Kohsuke Kawaguchi gave a presentation at the Silicon Valley CI Summit held in Mountain View. Within the presentation, Kohsuke included a collection of numbers about the vibrancy of the Jenkins project that certainly hasn’t gotten enough attention. While the slideshow is embedded below, here’s some good high-level points: Over 170 GitHub pull requests in the past four months, with...

[Editor’s Note: For the past few weeks Jenkins community member Charles Lowell has been working with Kohsuke on adding support for building plugins in Ruby. As part of this effort, Charles has been hosting weekly hack sessions via WebEx] As always, last night’s Ruby Plugins hack session was a pleasure. Below is a quick notation of what items were discussed and/or accomplished followed by next...

Thanks to the kindness of BigPoint GmbH and Kutzi, we had the first Jenkins Hackathon in Europe, in a very large and airly conference room in their Hamburg campus, on a nice sunny Sunday of May 1st. About 10 people came, including the static code analysis plugin fame Ullrich Hafner, Androd emulator plugin fame Christopher Orr, the instant messenger plugin (and others) fame Christoph...

As you might have noticed Jenkins finally has a brand spankin' new logo! Over the past couple weeks we’ve run two series of votes, one for the initial 11 logo submissions and then a final, run-off election, for the two most popular choices. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everybody that submitted logos! It is incredibly flattering to have so many people passionate about the project and willing to spend...

A little over a week ago we opened the polls to the larger user-base to vote for the new and improved Jenkins logo. After receiving hundreds of votes, we are now ready to enter the final round of voting (click images to see larger versions in a new window). Voting will end April 9th at 23:59 UTC, so make sure to tell your friends, coworkers...

We’re happy to announce that there’ll be a Jenkins meetup in San Francisco on Wed., Apr 13th, generously hosted by Engine Yard. The meetup will start at 6:30 - you can find more information here. Dr Nic Williams of Engine Yard will talk about their use of Jenkins with Ruby, and Kohsuke will give an update on the JRuby plugin development work he and...

Good portion of Java developers use Windows, so we tend to think the opposite is true, that a good portion of Windows folks use Java. But this is not true. As Jenkins gains traction among .NET developers, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Java is very alien to them. They naturally have no idea of what a war file means, and often don’t even have Java...