This is a guest post from Alyssa Tong, who drives JUC organizations around the world. If you missed JUC Palo Alto on Oct 23, 2013 the videos are now available. We are off to planning JUC 2014. It is hard to believe this will be the 4th annual JUC in the Bay Area. The growth in the Jenkins community since the first JUC is astounding. Every year...

In the hope of streamlining account creation e-mail delivery and mailing list moderations, I have deployed SPF and DKIM over the weekend for e-mails coming out of @jenkins-ci.org, which includes account appliations, Confluence, and JIRA. I’ve also used this opportunity to switch back the sender of JIRA notifications to noreply@jenkins-ci.org. It was originally this way, then changed to jenkinsci-no-reply@googlegroups.com when someone complained (on what ground...

+ The day after Jenkins User Conference, we held a smaller meet-up of serious large-scale Jenkins users dubbed as "Jenkins Scalability Summit". In this Open Space Technology style event, we went over war stories from users. Just to show the degree of seriousness, some of those people run 1500+ agents, and others run Jenkins in HA configuration with a data center fail over! We then picked...

(This is a guest post by Alyssa Tong, the lead coordinator of Jenkins User Conference) Our 3rd annual Jenkins User Conference in the Bay Area being held next Wednesday in Palo Alto is booked fully to the capacity and we couldn’t be more excited for this event! It’s going to be an amazing day of learning, talking to technology experts, networking with other Jenkins users,...

(This is a guest post from Owen B. Mehegan aka autojack) The Jenkins User Conference - Palo Alto is coming up on October 23rd! The schedule for talks is full, but we’ve been looking for a way to give other members of the Jenkins community some visibility. There are many people who have contributed to the project in various ways, whether it’s contributing to core,...

(This is a guest post from Gareth Bowles, a Senior Software Engineer at Netflix.) Jenkins has been a central part of the Netflix build and deploy infrastructure for several years now, and we’ve been attending and speaking at JUC since it started in 2011. It’s a great opportunity to meet people who are as passionate about build, test and deployment automation as we are -...

(This is a guest post by Stephen Connolly) Every developer, at some stage, will be handed a project to maintain that somebody else was responsible for. If you are lucky, the developer will not have left the organization yet and you get a brief Knowledge Transfer as the developer packs up their desk before heading on to their new job. If you are unlucky, you...