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• Continuous Information - Jenkins Newsletter vol. 5

  The latest edition of Continuous Information is out for your reading pleasure. Highlights: Health Check-up for Jenkins: Kohsuke’s Tips on Keeping Jenkins Happy Jenkins continues to take over the world, with more than 65,000 active installations and more than 800 plugins Events: Jenkins User Conference – 10/23 in Palo Alto, CA (use discount code BEE-JUC); Jenkins Scalability Summit 10/24; and more Jenkins made the SD...

  Lisa Wells September 16, 2013
• Behind the Scenes of the Jenkins User Conference Palo Alto!

  The Jenkins User Conference (JUC) Palo Alto is less than two months away! The organizing committee, 13 sponsors and 16 speakers have been hard at work coordinating a fun and educational day for the Jenkins community on October 23. Check out the agenda and see for yourself! Speakers are traveling from around the globe to take part in this conference, including...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 11, 2013
• Extreme Feedback Lamp, Switch Gear style

  This is a guest post by Aske Olsson Extreme feedback is an incredibly powerful way to drive quality and accelerate your developer fast feedback loop. Having eXtreme Feedback Devices (XFDs) hooked up to your Jenkins jobs gives everyone on your team instant insight into the current software state. At customer after customer we’ve seen extreme feedback devices drive significant incremental productivity gains,...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 5, 2013
• Jenkins User Event in Copenhagen on September 6

  Seize the opportunity to join the Jenkins community! Just like last year, the Scandinavian Jenkins Conference will be in Copenhagen, Denmark, hosted by Praqma and sponsored by CloudBees, Sony, Switch::Gears, and PRQA. The open source community will gather on September 6th for a full day of networking and knowledge sharing at The Department of Computer Science at The University of Copenhagen. Based...

  Lisa Wells July 24, 2013
• Reducing the # of threads in Jenkins: SSH agents

  As the usage of Jenkins expands, we started seeing users who run multiple 100s of agents on one controller, and thus it became a lot more important for us to scale well to even larger number of agents. While I was looking at the thread dump of a large system, I started noticing that there are a large number of threads...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi June 21, 2013
• 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
• Jenkins hits 1.500

  The last week the Jenkins project has reached a miletone release — Version 1.500. That’s no 1.5 nor 1.5.0. That’s the 501st release since its inception, counting all the way up from 1.0, 1.1 to 1.500. We’ll be celebrating this release in the upcoming FOSDEM conference in Brussels, but I wanted to thank everyone for making this great community possible by...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi January 30, 2013