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...

Agenda is posted for Jenkins User Conference Boston and Berlin. For Boston, my favorite would be the workflow in Jenkins talk that will cover the new workflow job type Jesse and I are working on. As of this writing it is still very much a work in progress, but that talk is our way of putting a stake on the ground that we WILL have...

One of the new efforts in Jenkins this year is the acceptance test harness for Jenkins. We will be doing the Jenkins office hours next week to go over this and sync up and coordinate between people in the community that are trying to work on this. It'll be April 23rd 11am PT (see what this time is in your time zone) on Google Hangout...

InfoQ has been running a CI server survey for more than a month now, and here is the current result: Jenkins has gotten more than 70% of the votes, once again proving the wide adoption among developers. If you are one of those who picked Cruise Control into the "considering" section, I'd encourage you to look around a bit more. You can still vote from their...

Jenkins User Conference (JUC) season is upon us! It’s a busy year for the Butler – he’s hosting conferences all over and looking for sponsors to help: Boston – June 18 Berlin – June 25 Herzelia, Israel – July 16 Bay Area (California) – October (date TBD) Mr. Jenkins and the JUC Organizing Committee want to invite you and your company to...

Over the past three years, the Jenkins User Conference is held annually in the Bay Area with a few events in different locations around the world. The Jenkins User Conference has established a reputation as a focal point for the Jenkins community to come together to share new ideas and best practices. Each year we have experienced the growth and expansion within the Jenkins...

FOSDEM is probably the biggest open-source developers' conference in Europe. This year will be the 3rd year for us to be present in FOSDEM. There will be a bunch of community people, handing out flyers and stickers, showing Jenkins, and generally be available to talk to people! This year, we'll bring some Jenkins T-shirts to sell, and hopefully some bobble heads as well. So please...

I'm going to visit Sao Paulo once again this weekend to attend the second annual Jenkins users meet-up. It's a whole day free event Saturday full of Jenkins goodness. You'll hear from a number of active Jenkins folks, and I'll be presenting about what CloudBees (where I currently work) has contributed to the Jenkins project, including recent new OSS plugins and some services. I'm also...

It's been a month now, but I realized that I've never posted a wrap-up post of JUC 2013. So in the spirit of "better later than, never", here it goes. First of all, I wanted to thank everyone who came. More than 400 of you came, and another 600 signed up for live streaming of events (and I know some people watched those live streams...

This is a guest post from Alyssa Tong, who drives JUC organizations around the world. If you missed JUC Palo Alto on Oct 23, 2013 the videos are now available. We are off to planning JUC 2014. It is hard to believe this will be the 4th annual JUC in the Bay Area. The growth in the Jenkins community since the first JUC is astounding. Every year...