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• Jenkins Community Survey

  + + 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...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi November 3, 2011
• Report bugs and win Kindle

  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...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi October 21, 2011
• Andrew Bayer discusses Jenkins with Tim O'Brien

  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....

  

  R. Tyler Croy October 17, 2011
• CI Dinner Wednesday at 6:30

  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...

  

  R. Tyler Croy October 5, 2011
• IPS Packages of Jenkins for Solaris/OpenIndiana

  Image Packaging System (IPS) is a new package manager Sun has developed for OpenSolaris. While I have my doubts about whether a brand-new package manager was a good way of spending engineering resources, OpenSolaris had a number of very nice features that made it a convincing platform to run Jenkins, thanks to SMF, ZFS, and zones. So I used to...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 20, 2011
• 2011 Donation Drive

  Since the end of April, Jenkins has been officially part of the SPI (Software in the Public Interest), an umbrella organization which offers a useful level of legal status for the project. Up until recently we had not taken proper advantage of this new legal umbrella, thankfully that’s changed as we’re now capable of accepting donations! For the project this is a big step forward as it...

  

  R. Tyler Croy September 19, 2011
• Jenkins Long-Term Release 1.409.2 is out

  We just posted the updated Long-term Release (LTS) of 1.409.2. Just as a recap, with LTS releases, we plan on providing a release train that only has backported changes. 1.409.2 contains a handful of important bug fixes since 1.409.1. For more about LTS, see this wiki page. Thanks to the heroic effort of those who are involved, namely Vojtech Juranek and a...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 14, 2011
• Call for Testers: Upcoming LTS update

  A couple of months ago Jenkins embarked on an new project, the Jenkins "LTS" (Long Term Support) release line. A LTS branch of development is common in most major open source projects, especially those with substantial corporate adoption, so this was a great step for the project as a whole. We’re now coming up on the second LTS release, which will be an incremental update to...

  

  R. Tyler Croy September 1, 2011
• Jenkins User Conference: Call for Papers

  As we announced yesterday, we are organizing a Jenkins User Conference, and we are delighted to announce its Call for Papers is now open. We are looking forward to receiving amazing proposals from infrastructure experts to novice developers in the Jenkins community. Use your creativity. Share and showcase your unique approach to utilizing Jenkins technology. We do not encourage overt marketing...

  

  Kohsuke Kawaguchi August 9, 2011