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Better late than never right? Back in June, during his world tour, Andrew Bayer stopped by Munich to participate in a Jenkins Meetup along with Dr. Ullrich Hafner. Andrew gave a talk titled "The State of Jenkins" ( slides) and Ullrich talked about "Static Code Analysis with Jenkins" ( slides) You can view the videos on this page hosted by TNG. Thanks to Stefan Wolf for the heads up!

+ image:https://www.cloudbees.com/sites/default/files/imagefield_thumbs/Buggy_Code.png[image,width=129,height=96] + + + As if https://jenkins-ci.org/content/report-bugs-and-win-kindle[getting a Kindle for reporting bugs] and https://jenkins-ci.org/content/jenkins-community-survey[getting an AppleTV for filing a survey] aren't enough, you can also https://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-community-contests.cb#bugbounty[win an iPad for fixing an issue]. + + + So if you've been thinking about tinkering with https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/GitHub+Repositories[Jenkins code base] but haven't done so yet, this is a great opportunity to get going. There's https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Extend+Jenkins[documentation about how to get started], and there's https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Office+Hours[Jenkins Office Hours] and https://jenkins-ci.org/content/chat[IRC channel] if you need some interactive help from existing devs. I think new features, not just bug fixes, would qualify, so long as it's recorded in the issue tracker. And similarly, I think the plugins would qualify, not just core. + + + + Aside from iPad, there's one $50 Amazon gift certificate going out every week, which is almost a steal! So be sure to submit your entry! +

+ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Census[ + image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Volkstelling_1925_Census.jpg/300px-Volkstelling_1925_Census.jpg[image,height=140] + ] + + + + There's currently https://bit.ly/rYnFy2[a survey running] to get a better sense of our use base. Those inputs help us steer the effort wisely, so we appreciate your taking time to fill it in. The result would be more useful if larger number of people participate, so feel free to encourage others to fill it in as well. + + + In the same spirit of the fundraising drive in NPR, CloudBees is throwing in a "thank you gift" of AppleTV as an added incentive. See https://blog.cloudbees.com/2011/11/take-jenkins-survey.html[their blog post] for more details.

CloudBees is running a 60-days"bring me bugs" contest for the Jenkins project where you may win a Kindle and Amazon gift cards for a bug report you made during the contest period. See the linked site for details about how to enter into the drawing. Greg Moy from Electronic Arts has already won for the first week, but there are more rounds to come. Several years ago Sun did the same thing around GlassFish, and it was useful to drive more participations into the project. Whether or not you were around the last time, don’t forget to participate this time.

Recently, Jenkins Interim Governance Board member and core contributor, Andrew Bayer sat down with Tim O’Brien to discuss the Jenkins project. You can watch the video on YouTube or via the embed below.

Apologies for the late notice, I think most of us have been pre-occupied with that fantastic Jenkins User Conference. While there are plenty of folks in town for JavaOne, I wanted to host a meetup/dinner at Cafe Chaat here in San Francisco. If you’re coming from JavaOne directly, use these directions If you’re coming from Oracle OpenWorld, use these directions Kohsuke will be in attendance as will some other Jenkins User Conference speakers, so if you still have left-over questions, I’m sure you can get them answered before the last of the Mango Lassi is finished! Look forward to seeing you there!

+ image:https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/3b/Solaris_OS_logo.svg/220px-Solaris_OS_logo.svg.png[image] + + + Image Packaging System (IPS) is a new package manager Sun has developed for OpenSolaris. While I have my doubts about whether a brand-new package manager was a good way of spending engineering resources, OpenSolaris had a number of very nice features that made it a convincing platform to run Jenkins, thanks to SMF, ZFS, and zones. So I used to produce IPS packages for Jenkins. I lost the ability to do this as I left Oracle and lost access to a Solaris system, but https://www.dev-eth0.de/jenkins-continuous-integration-on-opensolaris/[a recent blog post] renewed my interest. + + + So I'm happy to announce that the Jenkins project has started producing https://ips.jenkins-ci.org/[IPS packages for the releases]. With this addition, the Jenkins project now produces 9 packages on different platforms (10, if you count https://rubygems.org/gems/jenkins-war[Ruby as a separate platform] :-) +

Since the end of April, Jenkins has been officially part of the SPI (Software in the Public Interest), an umbrella organization which offers a useful level of legal status for the project. Up until recently we had not taken proper advantage of this new legal umbrella, thankfully that’s changed as we’re now capable of accepting donations! For the project this is a big step forward as it will allow us to offset the cost of servers for the project, bandwidth, SSL certificates and other costs incurred as part of running such a large open source project. Trivia: The machine that this page is being served from originally started out as "hudson labs", purchased and colocated by abayer, kohsuke and myself. Since we’re now able to accept donations, we’re kicking off a donation drive to help recover some of the costs incurred this summer ( which I’ve discussed previously). Our immediate goal is to raise $5130 to recoup bandwidth costs, if you can spare some change, head on over to the SPI online donation page and help us out :)