It’s not often that I get to use that much hyperbole in a Jenkins blog post, but I think in this case it’s allowable. A journey that started over a year ago by Charles Lowell has reached a new level, thanks to lots of help from Kohsuke along with Hiroshi Nakamura and Jørgen Tjernø. As of today, with Jenkins 1.438, you can now download and...

It is just turning into a video heavy week isn’t it? First the videos from the Munich Meetup were made available, and now the videos from the first ever Jenkins User Conference. The full list of slides and videos can be found on this page, hosted by CloudBees who did a phenomenal job helping to organize and host the conference. I want to thank everybody...

Better late than never right? Back in June, during his world tour, Andrew Bayer stopped by Munich to participate in a Jenkins Meetup along with Dr. Ullrich Hafner. Andrew gave a talk titled "The State of Jenkins" (slides) and Ullrich talked about "Static Code Analysis with Jenkins" (slides) You can view the videos on this page hosted by TNG. Thanks to Stefan Wolf for the heads up!...

As if getting a Kindle for reporting bugs and getting an AppleTV for filing a survey aren’t enough, you can also win an iPad for fixing an issue. So if you’ve been thinking about tinkering with Jenkins code base but haven’t done so yet, this is a great opportunity to get going. There’s documentation about how to get started, and there’s Jenkins Office Hours and...

+ There’s currently a survey running to get a better sense of our use base. Those inputs help us steer the effort wisely, so we appreciate your taking time to fill it in. The result would be more useful if larger number of people participate, so feel free to encourage others to fill it in as well. In the same spirit of the fundraising drive in...

CloudBees is running a 60-days "bring me bugs" contest for the Jenkins project where you may win a Kindle and Amazon gift cards for a bug report you made during the contest period. See the linked site for details about how to enter into the drawing. Greg Moy from Electronic Arts has already won for the first week, but there are more rounds to...

Recently, Jenkins Interim Governance Board member and core contributor, Andrew Bayer sat down with Tim O’Brien to discuss the Jenkins project. You can watch the video on YouTube or via the embed below....

Apologies for the late notice, I think most of us have been pre-occupied with that fantastic Jenkins User Conference. While there are plenty of folks in town for JavaOne, I wanted to host a meetup/dinner at Cafe Chaat here in San Francisco. If you’re coming from JavaOne directly, use these directions If you’re coming from Oracle OpenWorld, use these directions Kohsuke will be in attendance as will...