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Kohsuke Kawaguchi

Kohsuke is the creator of Jenkins.

Confluence migration this weekend

+ + For the past few weeks, I’ve burnt a lot of midnight oil to get Confluence containerized. The goal is to make Confluence upgrade more manageable and testable. In the process, I’ve not only containerized Confluence, but also containerized some other services, including mock LDAP server, to be able to test the copy of the production Confluence dataset against...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi April 6, 2015
JUC 2015 Call for Paper Deadlines Approaching!

+ + The deadlines to speak at a 2015 Jenkins User Conference are fast approaching. Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to share your Jenkins tips, tricks, stories, and know-how with the community! Submit your proposal by the below deadlines to have your talk considered by a panel of Jenkins experts: Please note: The deadline to submit a speaking proposal...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi March 17, 2015
Google Apps SSO no longer supported in Jenkins OpenID plugin

This is a guest post from Owen Mehegan (aka autojack) In 2014 Google announced that they will be shutting down their OpenID 2.0 authentication endpoint and replacing it with Google+ Sign-in, a library built on top of OpenID Connect. The old Google endpoint will shut down on April 20th, 2015! Accordingly, if you are using the Jenkins OpenID plugin to authenticate...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi March 6, 2015
100K Celebration Podcast

As a part of the Jenkins 100K celebration, Dean Yu, Andrew Bayer, R. Tyler Croy, Chris Orr, and myself got together late Tuesday evening to go over the history of the project, how big the community was back then, how we grow, where we are now, and maybe a bit about future. We got carried away and the recording became longer...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi February 25, 2015
100K Celebration Podcast Recording

In preparation for Jenkins 100K celebration, I’m going to record a one-time podcast with Dean Yu, Andrew Bayer, and R. Tyler Croy. My current plan is to go over the history of the project, how big the community was back then, how we grow, where we are now, and maybe a bit about future. But if you have any other suggestions/questions that...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi February 24, 2015
Jenkins 100K celebration pictures

In preparation of the celebration of 100K installations, 1000 plugins, and 10 years of Jenkins, we’ve got these images created. I hope folks can use these images to mark the occasion! The full size pictures are here....

Kohsuke Kawaguchi February 19, 2015
Jenkins Celebration Day is February 26

Congratulations! The Jenkins project officially went over the 100K active users mark sometime in January. As of January 31, we were at 102,992. YOU are one of the 100K active users! As discussed on a couple recent project meetings, we have designated February 26 as Jenkins Celebration Day. To make some noise, here is what we are doing starting NOW: Write a blog...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi February 9, 2015
Office Hours tomorrow: workflow security model & plugin compatibility

In tomorrow’s Jenkins office hours, Jesse Glick will talk about two topics in the workflow plugin that he has been asked about: Security model: script security, permissions Plugin compatibility: SimpleBuildStep and friends, custom steps, etc. The session should be interesting to anyone using workflow or thinking about using workflow. Jesse is one of the top contributors in the community, so it’d be definitely...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi January 27, 2015
#BreakingBuilds

A lot of us has grown fond of our loyal butler Mr.Jenkins over time, which was created by Frontside and chosen as a result of a logo contest. In the true open-source style, the logo has since evolved into many different derivative works, such as a plugin, a 3D model, and a bobble head. Our friends at CloudBees are running a...

Kohsuke Kawaguchi December 17, 2014