Once again it’s October in our calendars. It means that the regular Hacktoberfest event is back! During this one-month hackathon you can support open source and earn a limited edition T-shirt. Jenkins project offers an opportunity to participate in the project and to get reviews and help from Jenkins contributors. How do I sign up? Sign-up to Hacktoberfest on the event website. Everything is set, just start coding! What can I do? There...

This is a guest post by Philip Stroh, Software Architect at TimoCom. When building multiple microservices - e.g. with Spring Boot - the integration and delivery pipelines of your services will most likely be very similar. Surely, you don’t want to copy-and-paste Pipeline code from one Jenkinsfile to another if you develop a new service or if there are adaptions in your delivery process. Instead you would like to define...

This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong, who runs the Jenkins Area Meetup program and is also responsible for Marketing & Community Programs at CloudBees, Inc. For the first time at Jenkins World, the Jenkins project honored the achievement of three Jenkins contributors in the areas of Most Valuable Contributor, Jenkins Security MVP, and most Valuable Advocate. These three individuals has consistently demonstrated excellence and proven value to the project....

At Jenkins World last month, we continued the tradition of "lunch-time demos" in the Jenkins project’s booth which we started in 2016. We invited a number of Jenkins contributors to present brief 10-15 minute demos on something they were working on, or considered themselves experts in. Continuing the post-Jenkins World tradition, we also just hosted a "Jenkins Online Meetup" featuring a selection of those lunch-time demos. I would like...

After a few months of work on its key features, I’m happy to announce the 1.2 release of Declarative Pipeline! On behalf of the contributors developing Pipeline, I thought it would be helpful to discuss three of the key changes. Parallel Stages First, we’ve added syntax support for parallel stages. In earlier versions of Declarative Pipeline, the only way to run chunks of Pipeline code in parallel was to use the parallel...

While at Jenkins World, Kohsuke Kawaguchi presented two long-time Jenkins contributors with a "Small Matter of Programming" award: Andrew Bayer and Jesse Glick. "Small Matter of Programming" being: a phrase used to ironically indicate that a suggested feature or design change would in fact require a great deal of effort; it often implies that the person proposing the feature underestimates its cost. — Wikipedia In this context the "Small Matter" relates to Jenkins Pipeline and...

This is a guest post by Brian Dawson on behalf of CloudBees, where he works as a DevOps Evangelist responsible for developing and sharing continuous delivery and DevOps best practices. He also serves as the CloudBees Product Marketing Manager for Jenkins. Once again it’s that time of year when CloudBees sponsors the Jenkins Community Survey to assist the community with gathering objective insights into how jenkins is being used and what users...

This is a guest post by Mark Waite, who maintains the git plugin, the git client plugin, and is a technical evangelist for CloudBees, Inc. The Jenkins project booth at Jenkins World 2017 will include the "Pull Requests Corner", recruiting new Jenkins contributors. We think there are many people who will attend the conference without realizing how easy it is to help the Jenkins project, and how much the help is...