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• A big thanks to Rackspace

  This post is long over-due and I really apologize for that. Some months ago we put out the call for "more agent machines!" through the mailing lists, sky-writers and twitter. We had a serious problem, for a continuous integration project, a large number of our plugins and dependencies weren’t being built in a continuous and automated fashion! We had some builds on a couple of...

  

  R. Tyler Croy June 9, 2011
• Building a software diamond with Jenkins

  [Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Jenkins community member Tom Rini] Alternatively: How to make your parallel jobs kick one last job at the end Many of us have had occasion to think: "I could make this project build quicker if I could just run parts in parallel and then one final job to wrap it up." Well, good news! Jenkins...

  

  R. Tyler Croy June 8, 2011
• Ruby Plugins Hack Session 5/27/2011

  After a one week hiatus, we returned to the weekly hack session on a mission light up the sky with fire! Attendees Charles Lowell, Rasheed Abdul-Aziz, Hiroshi Nakamura Discussion/Accomplished How to manage the different ScriptingContainers inside the Jenkins renamed the experimental repo where we’ve been doing all of our development from fog.hpi to the more aptly name [https://github.com/cowboyd/jenkins-ruby-plugins-playground] started a separate gem for housing the support...

  Charles Lowell May 27, 2011
• The State of the Jenkins Project

  A few weeks ago our very own Kohsuke Kawaguchi gave a presentation at the Silicon Valley CI Summit held in Mountain View. Within the presentation, Kohsuke included a collection of numbers about the vibrancy of the Jenkins project that certainly hasn’t gotten enough attention. While the slideshow is embedded below, here’s some good high-level points: Over 170 GitHub pull requests in the...

  

  R. Tyler Croy May 12, 2011
• Ruby Plugins Hack Session 5/12/2011

  [Editor’s Note: For the past few weeks Jenkins community member Charles Lowell has been working with Kohsuke on adding support for building plugins in Ruby. As part of this effort, Charles has been hosting weekly hack sessions via WebEx] As always, last night’s Ruby Plugins hack session was a pleasure. Below is a quick notation of what items were discussed and/or...

  Charles Lowell May 12, 2011
• Hamburg hackathon a great success!

  Thanks to the kindness of BigPoint GmbH and Kutzi, we had the first Jenkins Hackathon in Europe, in a very large and airly conference room in their Hamburg campus, on a nice sunny Sunday of May 1st. About 10 people came, including the static code analysis plugin fame Ullrich Hafner, Androd emulator plugin fame Christopher Orr, the instant messenger plugin...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi May 4, 2011
• Jenkins' New Look

  As you might have noticed Jenkins finally has a brand spankin' new logo! Over the past couple weeks we’ve run two series of votes, one for the initial 11 logo submissions and then a final, run-off election, for the two most popular choices. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank everybody that submitted logos! It is incredibly flattering to have so many people passionate about the...

  

  R. Tyler Croy April 14, 2011
• The final two: run-off vote for the new Jenkins logo

  A little over a week ago we opened the polls to the larger user-base to vote for the new and improved Jenkins logo. After receiving hundreds of votes, we are now ready to enter the final round of voting (click images to see larger versions in a new window). Voting will end April 9th at 23:59 UTC, so make sure to...

  

  R. Tyler Croy April 4, 2011
• San Francisco Jenkins Meetup - Wednesday, April 13th

  We’re happy to announce that there’ll be a Jenkins meetup in San Francisco on Wed., Apr 13th, generously hosted by Engine Yard. The meetup will start at 6:30 - you can find more information here. Dr Nic Williams of Engine Yard will talk about their use of Jenkins with Ruby, and Kohsuke will give an update on the JRuby plugin...

  Andrew Bayer April 1, 2011