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• What JVM versions are running Jenkins?

  Preceding some of last week’s Jenkins 2.0 discussions, there had been some threads on whether we should move Jenkins to require Java 8. The introduction of Java 8 last year brought performance improvements and highly desirable API changes, which make developing Java-based applications (arguably) much easier than before. The release was followed earlier this year by the end-of-life announcement for...

  

  R. Tyler Croy November 3, 2015
• Jenkins 2.0 Proposal: Improved "Out of the box" user experience

  This week we have featured a number of proposals for what we would like to see in "Jenkins 2.0", the vision of which is to make Jenkins users more efficient, productive and happy. We started with some more internally facing changes and have slowly progressed from the "inside-out" to today’s topic: improving the out of the box user experience. That is...

  

  R. Tyler Croy October 30, 2015
• Jenkins 2.0 Proposal: UX Improvements (Part One)

  We have been featuring a few proposals this week for what "Jenkins 2.0" is going to include. Today we’ll be diving into the most noticeable changes being proposed for Jenkins 2.0: the User Experience (UX) improvements Thus far in this blog series we have reviewed proposals covering: Introducing a policy for API deprecation Splitting Groovy out of 'core' Pipeline as code front and center The UX...

  

  R. Tyler Croy October 29, 2015
• Jenkins 2.0 Proposal: Pipeline as Code front and center

  We have been featuring a few proposals this week for what "Jenkins 2.0" is going to include, today we’re discussing my personal favorite, which I believe will have a tremendously positive impact for years to come (not to be too biased!): moving the "Pipeline as Code" support in Jenkins to the front and center. Thus far in this blog series we have...

  

  R. Tyler Croy October 28, 2015
• Jenkins 2.0 Proposal: Split Groovy out of "core"

  As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, there’s been a lot of discussion recently about what "Jenkins 2.0" means. In a recent "Office Hours" session, Kohsuke Kawaguchi presented his vision for Jenkins 2.0 in a office hours session, the slides for which can be found in this Google Presentation. Roughly paraphrasing Kohsuke’s vision, 2.0 is primarily about making things better for the thousands of users out there. This week,...

  

  R. Tyler Croy October 27, 2015
• Jenkins 2.0 Proposal: Introduce a policy for API deprecation

  Over the past few weeks there has been a vibrant discussion happening on the jenkinsci-dev@ mailing list as to what "Jenkins 2.0" means. While Jenkins does not currently adhere to semantic versioning, the change of a major version number does indicate a major milestone for the community. Project founder, Kohsuke Kawaguchi presented his vision for Jenkins 2.0 in a office hours session, the slides for which can...

  

  R. Tyler Croy October 25, 2015
• Upcoming in office hours: FOSDEM Planning Session

  For the past several years we’ve been attending FOSDEM, a massive free and open source event in Brussels, Belgium. In preparation for this upcoming FOSDEM (2016) event, we will be hosting an open planning meeting via Google Hangouts during this week’s "Office Hours." Agenda: Gauge who can participate and at what capacity. Pre-FOSDEM Contributor Summit After-hours meetup/happy hour Plans for a Jenkins stand (assuming we’re...

  

  R. Tyler Croy October 19, 2015
• Cooking Up JAMs

  There’s been some active discussions and planning around Jenkins Area Meetups (JAMs) specifically in the following cities: Rennes, France Seville, Spain Seattle, Washington Barcelona,Spain Raleigh, North Carolina Atlanta, Georgia I wanted to gauge Jenkins interests in these cities, so let us know at jenkinsci-jam@googlegroups.com if you live in one of these areas, and if you would be interested in becoming a member or be involved in JAM...

  

  Alyssa Tong October 9, 2015
• Winners of Docker Global Hack Day #3 are...

  Over 2,000 members of the Docker community attended Docker Hack Day events around the world. One of the forty-two Docker Hacks has some familiar names attached…​ Nicolas De Loof and Yoann Dubreuil from Docker Rennes, who are also active in our community, waved the Jenkins flag in this event and produced Jenkins docker agents plugin. This plugin lets you run builds inside...

  Hannah Inman October 2, 2015