Volume 4 of Continuous Information came out last night. It contains insights and highlights from founder Kohsuke, the latest growth stats, upcoming event info, Jenkins resources, and more. Highlights: Jenkins has nearly 20,000 more active installations than it had last June, up from 43,500 to more than 61,000 Nearly 100 plugins have been added since late last Fall when we did the last Jenkins survey. Now there...

With more than 600 plugins, Jenkins has a vibrant community and we’re dependent on YOU to keep it that way. Here are 3 ways you can give back to the community to ensure that everyone benefits and Jenkins keeps growing…​ Giving it back to the community #1: vendor+community=win Jenkins is becoming ubiquitous enough that tool vendors and service providers often find their users asking them to...

This year, the West Coast Jenkins User Conference will be in Palo Alto rather than San Francisco. If you’re nearby — or even if you’re not — join Kohsuke and other fellow developers for a solid day of Jenkins. The Date: Wednesday, October 23, 2013 The Venue: Palo Alto Jewish Community Center Details Register The Call for Papers is open until June 9 (scroll to bottom of page for form). JUC will be...

It’s been a while we had a hackathon in Germany. Let’s get together, get some coding done, and get to know fellow Jenkins developers! The date is June 15th Saturday. TNG Technology Consulting, where Stefan Wolf (dependency graph viewer plugin, etc) works, will be hosting us (thanks!) We’ll try to arrange some themes or agenda, based on who’s coming and how many of us will be...

_ Guest post by Yury V. Zaytsev and Abigail Morrison. To download the PDF file of the journal article mentioned below, click here!_ As recently exemplified by several reports on this blog, automation tools such as continuous integration servers, that help to defuse the exploding complexity of software under the ever-increasing pressure to deliver, are steadily gaining well-deserved mindshare in the industry. However, it is not just...

If you are coming to Game Developers Conference in the week of 25th, or if you are local to San Francisco bay area, come join us to the small drink up in the evening of 26th at 21st amendment. If you are coming, please RSVP so that we know how many to expect, and we can stay connected....

The folks at Rebel Labs picked Jenkins as the last installation of their technical report series. It is a beautifully crafted 50 page PDF that covers the overview of the technology. You get to see a bit of details about how ZeroTurnaround uses Jenkins, and it contains a section where I get interviewed by them. Also, while they failed to mention this in the document,...

The last week the Jenkins project has reached a miletone release — Version 1.500. That’s no 1.5 nor 1.5.0. That’s the 501st release since its inception, counting all the way up from 1.0, 1.1 to 1.500. We’ll be celebrating this release in the upcoming FOSDEM conference in Brussels, but I wanted to thank everyone for making this great community possible by participating and using it. Despite...