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GSoC: External Workspace Manager for Pipeline is released

This blog post is the last one from the series of Google Summer of Code 2016, External Workspace Manager Plugin project. The previous posts are: Introductory blog post Alpha release announcement Beta release announcement In this post I would like to announce the 1.0.0 release of the External Workspace Manager Plugin version to the main update center. Here’s a highlight of the available features: Workspace share and reuse across...

Alexandru Somai August 22, 2016
GSoC: External Workspace Manager for Pipeline. Beta release is available

This blog post is a continuation of the External Workspace Manager Plugin related posts, starting with the introductory blog post, and followed by the alpha version release announcement. As the title suggests, the beta version of the External Workspace Manager Plugin was launched! This means that it’s available only in the Experimental Plugins Update Center. Take care when installing plugins from the Experimental Update Center, since...

Alexandru Somai August 9, 2016
GSoC: External Workspace Manager Plugin alpha version

Currently it’s quite difficult to share and reuse the same workspace between multiple jobs and across nodes. There are some possible workarounds for achieving this, but each of them has its own drawback, e.g. stash/unstash pre-made artifacts, Copy Artifacts plugin or advanced job settings. A viable solution for this problem is the External Workspace Manager plugin, which facilitates workspace share and reuse across multiple...

Alexandru Somai June 30, 2016