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• Jenkins User Conference Israel - Coming June 6

  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...

  Lisa Wells May 22, 2013
• Continuous Information - Jenkins Newsletter vol. 4

  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...

  Lisa Wells May 17, 2013
• Registration & Call for Papers Open for JUC Palo Alto

  This year, the West Coast Jenkins User Conference will be in Palo Alto rather than San Francisco. If you’re nearby — or even if you’re not — join Kohsuke and other fellow developers for a solid day of Jenkins. The Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 The Venue: Palo Alto Jewish Community Center Details Register The Call for Papers is open until June 9 (scroll to bottom of page for...

  Lisa Wells April 30, 2013
• Report: Intro to Jenkins meet-up in Copenhagen

  We have hosted two informal meetups introducing Jenkins Continuous Integration Server. The first in end of June (announced here on this blog) and the second on the 7th of August. The first meet-up in June was only announced 8 days before, but had very good attendance - the second was completely booked (15 seats). The agenda is a short presentation of...

  

  R. Tyler Croy August 20, 2012
• Why does Jenkins have blue balls?

  It is interesting having an open source project that is sufficiently old to start generating "lore" of some form or another. Jenkins is starting to get to be that age, having been started over 6 years ago. One of the most commonly asked questions, is about Jenkins' use of "blue balls" to indicate success by default. This is enough of an...

  

  R. Tyler Croy March 13, 2012
• Building Jenkins plugins with Gradle

  Until now, Jenkins plugins written in Java or Groovy could only be built with Maven, using the maven-hpi-plugin to generate a proper manifest and archive which Jenkins can consume. But starting now, you can also use Gradle! See the wiki for information on how you can use Gradle and the new gradle-jpi-plugin to build, test and release your Java or Groovy...

  Andrew Bayer January 4, 2012
• Holiday appeal: please help Jenkins pay the project expense

  As we approach the holiday season, which is when people start to feel more charitable, at least in the U.S. So I’d like to make one more plea, that the Jenkins project needs your help in paying its expense, and that we are still about $1000 shy of the goal we need to get to. So if you can, please...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 5, 2011
• Jenkins Community Survey

  + + There’s currently a survey running to get a better sense of our use base. Those inputs help us steer the effort wisely, so we appreciate your taking time to fill it in. The result would be more useful if larger number of people participate, so feel free to encourage others to fill it in as well. In the same...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi November 3, 2011
• 2011 Donation Drive

  Since the end of April, Jenkins has been officially part of the SPI (Software in the Public Interest), an umbrella organization which offers a useful level of legal status for the project. Up until recently we had not taken proper advantage of this new legal umbrella, thankfully that’s changed as we’re now capable of accepting donations! For the project this is a big step forward as it...

  

  R. Tyler Croy September 19, 2011