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Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Kohsuke is the creator of Jenkins.

A new chapter for Kohsuke

2020 is going to be a year of change for me. By the end of January, I’ll be officially stepping back from Jenkins, switching my role at CloudBees to an advisor, and turning attention to my new startup. The rest of this post is to contextualize this transition, because if you haven’t been working closely with me, this might come across as a surprise. Jenkins...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi January 23, 2020
2019 Jenkins Board and Officer elections. Nominations are open!

This is a repost of the original announcement made by Kohsuke Kawaguchi in the Jenkins Developer mailing list. Minor changes were applied to reflect the posting date and to provide more links. Nominations for the 2019 Jenkins Board elections open for three governing board positions and five officer positions, namely: Security, Events, Release, Infrastructure and Documentation. The terms of office for these positions...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi September 25, 2019
Jenkins is joining the Continuous Delivery Foundation

Today Linux Foundation, along with CloudBees, Google, and a number of other companies, launched a new open-source software foundation called Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF.) The CDF believes in the power of Continuous Delivery, and it aims to foster and sustain the ecosystem of open-source, vendor neutral projects. Jenkins contributors have decided that our project should join this new foundation. This discussion...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi March 12, 2019
2018 in Review: A year of innovation

The end of a year is a great time to step back from the daily grind to look at the big picture. Across the industry, the relentless march toward more automation still continues on. We are writing software faster than ever, but the demand for software seems to be going up even more, and I feel more and more businesses and...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 25, 2018
Jenkins: Shifting Gears

Kohsuke here. This is a message for my fellow Jenkins developers. Jenkins has been on an amazing run, but I believe we are trapped in a local optimum, and losing appeal to people who fall outside of our traditional sweet spot. We need to take on new efforts to solve this. One is “cloud native Jenkins” that creates a flavor of Jenkins...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi August 31, 2018
Evolving Mission of Jenkins

Lately, perhaps subtle but exciting changes are starting to happen in the Jenkins project. The past few weeks have seen the birth of two new initiatives in Jenkins: Jenkins Essentials and Jenkins X. Each is exciting in its own right, and I encourage interested parties to take a look at their goals and missions and participate in them. But in this post, I...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi March 20, 2018
Come Share the Jenkins World Keynote Stage with Me!

Jenkins World is approaching fast, and the event staff are all busy preparing. I’ve decided to do something different this year as part of my keynote: I want to invite a few Jenkins users like you come up on stage with me. There have been amazing developments in Jenkins over the past year. For my keynote, I want highlight how the new Jenkins (Pipeline as code...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi June 26, 2017
Calling for Colombian Jenkins users!

The Jenkins project has learned that a company is trying to register "Jenkins" as a trademark in Colombia. This is alarming for us, and we are trying to oppose it. In order to do this effectively, we need to hear from Colombian users of Jenkins. Figure 1. South American visitors to jenkins.io for 2017 The Jenkins project owns a trademark "Jenkins" in...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 27, 2017
Join me for Jenkins World 2016

Jenkins World, September 13-15 at the Santa Clara Convention Center (SCCC), takes our 6th annual community user conference to a whole new level. It will be one big party for everything Jenkins, from users to developers, from the community to vendors. There will be more of what people always loved in past user conferences, such as technical sessions from users and developers, the Ask the...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi July 26, 2016