Over the past few weeks there has been a vibrant discussion happening on the jenkinsci-dev@ mailing list as to what "Jenkins 2.0" means. While Jenkins does not currently adhere to semantic versioning, the change of a major version number does indicate a major milestone for the community. Project founder, Kohsuke Kawaguchi presented his vision for Jenkins 2.0 in a office hours session, the slides for which can be found in this Google Presentation. Roughly...

For the past several years we've been attending FOSDEM, a massive free and open source event in Brussels, Belgium. In preparation for this upcoming FOSDEM (2016) event, we will be hosting an open planning meeting via Google Hangouts during this week's "Office Hours." Agenda: Gauge who can participate and at what capacity. Pre-FOSDEM Contributor Summit After-hours meetup/happy hour Plans for a...

There's been some active discussions and planning around Jenkins Area Meetups (JAMs) specifically in the following cities: Rennes, France Seville, Spain Seattle, Washington Barcelona,Spain Raleigh, North Carolina Atlanta, Georgia I wanted to gauge Jenkins interests in these cities, so let us know at jenkinsci-jam@googlegroups.com if you live in one of these areas, and if you would be interested in becoming a member or be involved in JAM one...

Over 2,000 members of the Docker community attended Docker Hack Day events around the world. One of the forty-two Docker Hacks has some familiar names attached... Nicolas De Loof and Yoann Dubreuil from Docker Rennes, who are also active in our community, waved the Jenkins flag in this event and produced Jenkins docker slaves plugin. This plugin lets you run builds inside containers, and in that...

I hope many of you have had a chance to see the Jenkins 2.0 thread. I'm going to use the office hours next Wednesday to go through this proposal. This is still primarily for developers in the project, as it's "just" a proposal with lots of details unspecified. It's more meant to help people understand where I'm coming from and what goals I have in mind...

Last week, the first Jenkins Area Meetup (JAM) took place in San Jose, CA on Wednesday, Sept 23. What a way to kick off the first JAM other than to have Docker, John Willis as our guest speaker. John talked about immutable infrastructure and its benefits and role of containers. Kohsuke discussed Jenkins Workflow, the motivation behind the same and latest features of...

This past Thursday, September 24th, 2015, I presented a couple of prototypes of what I hope will be the future of the Jenkins GUI. Or perhaps more correctly, close enough to the future to start generating positive feedback from you the community that improving the Jenkins GUI is important and some pieces that I am showing are going in the right direction. If you...

Update: This week's office hour has been canceled. This Wednesday, Sep 23, at 11 am PDT I will host another office hour on Stapler, the web framework used in Jenkins. This time, I'll show you how structured form submission in Jenkins works, and how Stapler can help you with it. As usual, the office hour will use Hangout on Air, and a limited number of people...