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• Another big thank you to Rackspace

  As the Jenkins project grows, the need for our infrastructure has been growing. Our Jenkins-on-Jenkins needs more build agents, we need more servers to run our infrastructure services. And it was once again Rackspace who stepped up to the plate; they have kindly donated us more cloud servers. I also use Rackspace for one of my personal servers, and when I...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi May 8, 2014
• JUC agenda posted

  + + Agenda is posted for Jenkins User Conference Boston and Berlin. For Boston, my favorite would be the workflow in Jenkins talk that will cover the new workflow job type Jesse and I are working on. As of this writing it is still very much a work in progress, but that talk is our way of putting a stake on...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 24, 2014
• Come join the infra team!

  We are looking for volunteers to join the small infra team here at the Jenkins project. We are the butlers of the butler that get Mr.Jenkins going. We’ve been managing our servers through puppet, and have been slowly folding pieces one at a time to puppet, but there’s still a lot of snowflake services that need proper operationalization. So to fix them...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 18, 2014
• Upcoming Jenkins Office Hours: Acceptance Test Harness

  One of the new efforts in Jenkins this year is the acceptance test harness for Jenkins. We will be doing the Jenkins office hours next week to go over this and sync up and coordinate between people in the community that are trying to work on this. It’ll be April 23rd 11am PT (see what this time is in your time zone)...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 15, 2014
• More scalable agents

  + + Nio NIO-based Java Web Start (JNLP) agent handling is coming to 1.560. This will help you run a large number of JNLP agents more efficiently. A connected JNLP agent used to occupy one thread on the controller, but now it occupies none. Combined with the earlier change that eliminated threads from idle executors, now you can connect thousands of...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 9, 2014
• Call for Sponsors: 2014 Jenkins User Conferences

  Jenkins User Conference (JUC) season is upon us! It’s a busy year for the Butler — he’s hosting conferences all over and looking for sponsors to help: Boston — June 18 Berlin — June 25 Herzelia, Israel — July 16 Bay Area (California) — October (date TBD) Mr. Jenkins and the JUC Organizing Committee want to invite you and your company to sponsor a JUC this year. Show your support for the Jenkins community and...

  Lisa Wells March 21, 2014
• Jenkins Sao Paulo Meetup this weekend

  I’m going to visit Sao Paulo once again this weekend to attend the second annual Jenkins users meet-up. It’s a whole day free event Saturday full of Jenkins goodness. You’ll hear from a number of active Jenkins folks, and I’ll be presenting about what CloudBees (where I currently work) has contributed to the Jenkins project, including recent new OSS plugins and...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 5, 2013
• Jenkins User Conference 2013 Palo Alto Wrap-up

  It’s been a month now, but I realized that I’ve never posted a wrap-up post of JUC 2013. So in the spirit of "better later than, never", here it goes. First of all, I wanted to thank everyone who came. More than 400 of you came, and another 600 signed up for live streaming of events (and I know some people...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 4, 2013
• Summary Report: Git Repository Disruption Incident of Nov 10th

  As reported in various places, there was an incident in early November where commits in our Git repositories have become misplaced temporarily by accident. By the mid next week we were able to resurrect all the commits and things are back to normal now. As there are many confusions and misunderstandings in people’s commentary, we wrote this post to clarify what...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi November 25, 2013