+ One of the current efforts under way in the dev list is driven by Tom Fennelly et al, who is working on introducing a series of small ball improvements to the user interface in Jenkins. If this is something you are interested in (and who aren’t?), you should see Kevin Burke’s manifest that sets out the plan of attack, and This mega thread on...

+ If you will be on the US East Coast or in Berlin for JUC, some of the JUC sponsors are organizing separate events called Continuous Delivery Seminar, which might be of interest to you. These events focus more on higher-level business value questions as well as vendor solutions that are difficult in community-focused JUC. New York City on June 19, the day after JUC US...

Let me start by introducing myself, my name is Steven Christou. Many of you might know me on IRC as schristou, my github id as christ66, or my twitter handle @schristou88. In Jenkins, I am currently working on some significant improvements to the subversion-plugin, along with various random bug fixes. I am also the current maintainer of Cobertura, an open source code coverage tool...

Jenkins won SDTimes 100, 2014 For the 5th year in a row, Jenkins project won SDTimes 100, 2014 this year under DevOps and SCM categories, along with other open-source projects like Chef, Docker, Git, LLVM, and Puppet. I’d like to take this opportunity to once again thank the community for keeing us going strong. There’s https://groups.google.com/forum/!topic/jenkinsci-dev/qrG7bAnZSHQ[a lot] of https://groups.google.com/forum/!topic/jenkinsci-dev/zDaX4yiWLLw[interesting] efforts going on in the project, as...

Only a few weeks until our Jenkins User Conference US East kicks off in Boston on June 18. Right now more than 300 people have registered and we’ve had to release more tickets! If you will be anywhere near New England on June 18, sign up fast so you don’t miss the fun. + This year marks the butler’s first conference tour to New England. He...

Today on IRC, I was asked how someone new to the project can get started working on Jenkins, when s/he has no particular preference or pet-peeve. This is a good question for which the project should have a canned answer ready, so here is one approach — adopt a plugin! Often, a Jenkins plugin gets developed by someone to scratch his own itch. That person shares...

Over the past 30 days or so, the acceptance test project has made a great progress. This project consists of a reusable harness that can be used by plugin developers and users to write functional test cases. These tests can be run against Jenkins instances that are deployed in all sorts of different ways, and can interact with complex real fixtures. These tests can be...

This week I’m going to do an office hour on how to write an acceptance test in Jenkins acceptance test harness. The event is on Wednesday 11am PT. This new Selenium-based test harness is full of page objects and other abstractions that let you write blackbox integration tests on Jenkins and its plugins, as well as how they behave under various environments. Unlike our regular office...