We are happy to announce that the Jenkins project has achieved the graduated status in the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). This status is officially effective Aug 03, 2020. Jenkins is the first project to graduate in the CD Foundation. Thanks to all contributors who made our graduation possible! In this article, we will discuss what the CD Foundation membership and graduation mean to the Jenkins community. We will also talk...

As a developer, I usually use Jenkins like this: Find a job which is related with my current work Trigger that job Check the output of the build log Sometimes, I might need to check the update center. Maybe a new plugin is needed, or I need to update an existing plugin. Or, I want to upload a plugin from my computer. For all these cases, I just don’t...

Jenkins stores all generated artifacts on the controller server filesystem. This presents a couple of challenges especially when you try to run Jenkins in the cloud: As the number of artifacts grow, your Jenkins controller will run out of disk space. Eventually, performance can be impacted. Frequent transfer of files between agents and controller may cause load, CPU or network issues which are always hard to...

Since 2017, I started to do some contributions to the Jenkins community. As a beginner, translation might be the easiest way to help the project. You don’t need to understand the whole context, even to create a ticket in the issue tracker system. Improvement of localization usually is minor. But some problems occurred soon, there isn’t a native speaker of Chinese that could review my PRs. So,...

Implementing DevSecOps practices at the enterprise scale is challenging. With multiple programming languages, automated testing frameworks, and security compliance tools being used by different applications within your organization, it becomes difficult to build and maintain pipelines for each team. Most pipelines are going to follow the same generic workflow regardless of which specific tech stack is employed by an application. The Templating Engine Plugin...

Today Linux Foundation, along with CloudBees, Google, and a number of other companies, launched a new open-source software foundation called Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF.) The CDF believes in the power of Continuous Delivery, and it aims to foster and sustain the ecosystem of open-source, vendor neutral projects. Jenkins contributors have decided that our project should join this new foundation. This discussion happened over a period...

The Jenkins project has learned that a company is trying to register "Jenkins" as a trademark in Colombia. This is alarming for us, and we are trying to oppose it. In order to do this effectively, we need to hear from Colombian users of Jenkins. Figure 1. South American visitors to jenkins.io for 2017 The Jenkins project owns a trademark "Jenkins" in the U.S., through a...

On behalf of the GSoC Org Admin team I am happy to announce that we are going to apply to Google Summer of Code (GSoC) again this year. In GSoC high-profile students work in open-source projects for several months under mentorship of organization members. We are looking for mentors and project ideas. So yes, we are looking for you :) Conditions As a mentor, you will be asked to: lead the...

As you probably know, on this year Jenkins projects participates in Google Summer of Code 2016. You can find more information about the accepted projects on the GSoC subproject page and in the Jenkins Developer mailing list. On this week GSoC students are going to present their projects as a part of mid-term evaluation, which covers one month of community bonding and one month of coding. We would like to...

As you probably know, Jenkins project has been accepted to Google Summer of Code 2016. During last month we were working with students in order to discuss their project ideas and to review their application drafts. Thanks again to all students and mentors for your hard work during about ten office hours and dozens of other calls/chats! Current status We have successfully handled the student application period We have received...