+ Surya walked us through https://github.com/jenkinsci/dotCI[the dotCI source code] yesterday, and a bunch of ideas about how to reuse pieces are discussed. The recording is on YouTube, and https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zXYOz9Zy-CLu2t8PgqIU0jMO8890PRNjPEAvlrx-HW8/edit#[my notes are here]. + +...

+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London[image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/82/London_Big_Ben_Phone_box.jpg/179px-London_Big_Ben_Phone_box.jpg[image]] + + + + I'll be visiting London in early September, and if possible I'd love to organize some get together of Jenkins users/devs. I wonder if anyone is interested in hosting the event? + + + I think it just needs to fit 20 or so people, so all we need is a single conference room somewhere in London. If you think you might be able...

+ image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fe/Hangouts_Icon.png[image] + + + + Tomorrow in Jenkins office hours, Surya Gaddipati will be going over https://github.com/jenkinsci/dotci[DotCi], a package of features that integrates Jenkins closely with GitHub, configuration via .ci.yml file in source tree, built-in Docker support and MongoDB backend. + + + I think there's a number of interesting pieces here that could be split into individual plugins for reuse, and possible alignment with existing efforts like...

+ https://twitter.com/BostonVC/status/479338642331426816[ + image:https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bqbz9JQIIAA9gKG.jpg[image,width=300,height=225] + ] + + + + We kicked off this year's Jenkins User Conference world tour in Boston this Wednesday. The event was well-attended with more than 450 people registered and 400+ people showed up. So big thank you for everyone who came! + + + https://github.com/jenkinsci/workflow-plugin[Workflow plugin] that Jesse presented was a big hit and https://twitter.com/search?q=%23jenkinsconf&src=typd[lit up twittersphere], and while I was only able to listen...

+ image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/2b/-_Beer_garden_sign_-_Germany_-.jpg/160px--_Beer_garden_sign_-_Germany_-.jpg[image] + + + + There'll be a number of active community people in the event, so let's take advantages of that and meet up. And there's no better place to do it than a beer garden in summer! + + + If you are coming to https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2014/berlin[JUC Berlin], I've just set up https://www.meetup.com/jenkinsmeetup/events/189413622/[an RSVP page for a beer garden get together the day before], and https://www.meetup.com/jenkinsmeetup/events/189405872/[another dinner...

+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subaru_Legacy[ + image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f7/Subaru_Legacy_V_Kombi_rear_20100402.jpg/320px-Subaru_Legacy_V_Kombi_rear_20100402.jpg[image,width=240,height=156] + ] + + + + One of the current efforts under way in the dev list is driven by https://github.com/tfennelly[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 https://gist.github.com/kevinburke/9d4f127a7005eaa9d970[Kevin Burke's manifest] that sets out the plan of attack, and...

+ + + + If you will be on the US East Coast or in Berlin for JUC, some of the JUC sponsors are organizing separate events called https://www.cloudbees.com/cdsummit[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...

Jenkins won SDTimes 100, 2014 + image:https://www.sdtimes.com/images/sdt100/2014SDT100_logo_120x123.gif[image] + + + + For the 5th year in a row, Jenkins project won https://sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=71295&page=4[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...

+ Only a few weeks until https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc-2014/boston[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 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jenkins-user-conference-us-east-boston-june-18-2014-tickets-10558652213[release more tickets]! If you will be anywhere near New England on June 18, https://www.eventbrite.com/e/jenkins-user-conference-us-east-boston-june-18-2014-tickets-10558652213[sign up fast so you don’t miss the fun]. + + + + + + This year marks the butler’s first conference tour to...

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...