Following right on the heels of our US-East Jenkins User Conference in Boston, we have JUC Europe in Berlin on June 25. Like the East Coast conference, the Berlin one is almost full, so sign up while you can. Our venue in Berlin is KOSMOS, a building with a fascinating history. The building was inaugurated as a cinema in 1961. With 1001 seats, it was...

+ 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...

+ image:https://jenkins-ci.org/sites/default/files/images/christou.jpg[image] + + + + Let me start by introducing myself, my name is Steven Christou. Many of you might know me on IRC as schristou, my github id as https://github.com/christ66[christ66], or my twitter handle https://twitter.com/schristou88[@schristou88]. In Jenkins, I am currently working on some significant improvements to the subversion-plugin, along with various random bug fixes. I am also the current maintainer of https://cobertura.github.io/cobertura[Cobertura], an open source code...

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...

+ Over the past 30 days or so, https://github.com/jenkinsci/acceptance-test-harness/[the acceptance test project] has made a great progress. + + + This project consists of a reusable harness that can be used by plugin developers and users to write functional test cases. These tests can be run against Jenkins instances that are deployed in https://github.com/jenkinsci/acceptance-test-harness/blob/master/docs/CONTROLLER.md[all sorts of different ways], and can interact with https://github.com/jenkinsci/acceptance-test-harness/blob/master/docs/FIXTURES.md[complex real fixtures]. These...