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Jenkins CIA Program and Meetup Updates
A few years ago, the Jenkins community announced the Jenkins CIA program - the Continuous Integration Ambassador initiative to spread the word of Jenkins. As of recently, there hasn't been as much...
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JUC Speaker Blog Series: Laurette Cisneros, JUC U.S. West
Last year's JUC West 2014 was packed with good gems of information – such as "how we did it" talks where the speakers shared their points of view on the tools they use for automating their pipeline. At...
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Plugin Spotlight: Version Column Plugin
Most Jenkins masters with a distributed build configuration will leverage nodes that run a slave.jar to start a slave agent. Regardless of whether the slave.jar is launched through a Java Web Start or...
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Take the 2015 Jenkins Survey!
Just as in past years, we are running a survey this year, to get some objective insights into what our users would like to see in the Jenkins project. Obviously, the developers in the project deal with...
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Jenkins User Conference West Day 1
Boy, what a day! This is the 5th annual JUC in San Francisco bay area, and the crowd is getting bigger. I brought the LEGO Jenkins + CloudBees logo mosaic that we built at the CloudBees San Jose...
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Office hour on proposed UI/UX changes
Gus Reiber will host this week's office hour on Wednesday, 11 AM PDT. He'll talk about some of the UI/UX improvements in Jenkins that he's working on, and will answer your questions about it.He's...
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Office hour on form handling in Jenkins
Update: This week's office hour has been canceled.This Wednesday, Sep 23, at 11 am PDT I will host another office hour on Stapler, the web framework used in Jenkins. This time, I'll show you how...
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GUI improvements on the horizon
This past Thursday, September 24th, 2015, I presented a couple of prototypes of what I hope will be the future of the Jenkins GUI. Or perhaps more correctly, close enough to the future to start...
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Bay Area JAM
Last week, the first Jenkins Area Meetup (JAM) took place in San Jose, CA on Wednesday, Sept 23. What a way to kick off the first JAM other than to have Docker, John Willis as our guest speaker. John...
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Upcoming in office hours: Jenkins 2.0
I hope many of you have had a chance to see the Jenkins 2.0 thread. I'm going to use the office hours next Wednesday to go through this proposal. This is still primarily for developers in the project,...
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Winners of Docker Global Hack Day #3 are...
Over 2,000 members of the Docker community attended Docker Hack Day events around the world. One of the forty-two Docker Hacks has some familiar names attached...Nicolas De Loof and Yoann Dubreuil from...
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Cooking Up JAMs
There's been some active discussions and planning around Jenkins Area Meetups (JAMs) specifically in the following cities:Rennes, FranceSeville, Spain Seattle, Washington Barcelona,SpainRaleigh, North...
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Upcoming in office hours: FOSDEM Planning Session
For the past several years we've been attending FOSDEM, a massive free and open source event in Brussels, Belgium. In preparation for this upcoming FOSDEM (2016) event, we will be hosting an open...
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Jenkins 2.0 Proposal: Introduce a policy for API deprecation
Over the past few weeks there has been a vibrant discussion happening on thejenkinsci-dev@ mailing list as to what "Jenkins 2.0" means. While Jenkins does not currently adhere to semantic versioning,...
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Jenkins 2.0 Proposal: Split Groovy out of "core"
As I mentioned in yesterday's post, there's been a lot of discussion recently about what "Jenkins 2.0" means. In a recent "Office Hours" session, Kohsuke Kawaguchi presented his vision for Jenkins 2.0...
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Jenkins 2.0 Proposal: Pipeline as Code front and center
We have been featuring a few proposals this week for what "Jenkins 2.0" is going to include, today we're discussing my personal favorite, which I believe will have a tremendously positive impact for...
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Jenkins 2.0 Proposal: UX Improvements (Part One)
We have been featuring a few proposals this week for what "Jenkins 2.0" is going to include. Today we'll be diving into the most noticeable changes being proposed for Jenkins 2.0: the User Experience...
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Jenkins 2.0 Proposal: Improved "Out of the box" user experience
This week we have featured a number of proposals for what we would like to see in "Jenkins 2.0", the vision of which is to make Jenkins users more efficient, productive and happy. We started with some...
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Adopt a plugin!
With more than a thousand public plugins in the Jenkins community now, it should come as no surprise that some of them are no longer actively maintained. Plugin authors move on when they change jobs,...
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What JVM versions are running Jenkins?
Preceding some of last week's Jenkins 2.0 discussions, there had been some threads on whether we should move Jenkins to require Java 8. The introduction of Java 8 last year brought performance...
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