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Kevin Martens

Kevin Martens is part of the CloudBees Documentation team, helping with Jenkins documentation creation and maintenance.

Android and Jenkins: what is the limit?

After reading the title, you may be thinking "Wait, what? Is Jenkins somehow limited in building Android apps?" You can relax, as I may have phrased it incorrectly. We’re not talking about building Android apps with Jenkins, which has no limitations as far as I know. We’re talking about building something with Jenkins, using an Android device as a Jenkins node, or potentially as...

Bruno Verachten
Kevin Martens March 30, 2023
miniJen and RISCV

Short Introduction What is miniJen? It’s the smallest Jenkins multi-cpu-architectures instance known to this day. It’s composed of a 4 arm Cortex-A55 core RockChip controller (aarch64), a 4 arm Cortex-A7a core AllWinner agent (armv7l), a 4 arm Cortex-A53 core AllWinner agent (aarch64), and a single RV64GCV core AllWinner agent (RISC-V). A bit of personal history I’ve been an arm fanboy for years, it all started...

Bruno Verachten
Kevin Martens March 10, 2023
Jenkins February 2023 Newsletter

Highlights FOSDEM 2023 insights Jenkins is a mentor organization for Google Summer of Code Several container image updates Jenkins Awards voting is now open Contributed by: Alyssa Tong FOSDEM 2023 Returning to FOSDEM for the first in-person event since COVID was both exciting and nostalgic for our Jenkins contributors. It was exciting to see the same crowd size and enthusiasm by attendees. Many thanks to the wonderful FOSDEM organizers...

Alyssa Tong
Damien DUPORTAL
Kevin Martens
Mark Waite
Kevin Guerroudj
Bruno Verachten March 9, 2023
Jenkins Contributor Awards - Voting Open

The 2023 Jenkins award nomination period has ended and voting is now open! Voting will take place until March 28, when the voting period closes, and the winners will be announced at this year’s cdCon. 2023 Award categories and nominees This year we have three awards, each with several nominees: Most Valuable Jenkins Advocate: Alexander Brandes Alex Earl Bruno Verachten Jean-Marc Meessen Kris Stern Mark Waite Most Valuable Jenkins Contributor: Alexander Brandes Damien...

Kevin Martens March 9, 2023
How to build an unsigned Jenkins MSI on your Windows machine

Should you ever need to rebuild a Jenkins MSI on your Windows machine, here is a way to do it. Pre-requisites Jenkins WAR file First, you should download the Jenkins war file that will be inside the MSI file. You can access it from the official Jenkins website or from the Jenkins update center. Check the Jenkins download page to download the latest weekly version...

Bruno Verachten
Alexander Brandes
Kevin Martens February 28, 2023
Jenkins Contributor Awards - Nominations Open

The Jenkins project is a part of the Continuous Delivery Foundation, which gives out awards to recognize all the work from this community and the progress made in the name of Continuous Delivery. View the award guidelines, definitions, and previous winners: here. 2023 Award Categories CDF Awards Continuous Enthusiast → Nominate someone Top CDF Ambassador → Nominate someone Top CDF Contributor → Nominate someone Top Documenter →...

Continuous Delivery Foundation
Alyssa Tong
Kevin Martens February 23, 2023
Thoughts on FOSDEM 2023

What better way to kick off the new year, than by returning for an in-person event at one of the most popular open source gatherings of all, FOSDEM! On February 4 & 5, contributors from the Jenkins project and thousands of other open-source enthusiasts traveled from around the world to flock to FOSDEM. Located in Brussels, Belgium, FOSDEM is an opportunity to...

Alyssa Tong
Alexander Brandes
Jean-Marc Meessen
Stéphane Merle
Bruno Verachten
Kevin Martens February 21, 2023
Jenkins January 2023 Newsletter

Highlights Jenkins in GSoC planning is in full steam ahead. General availability of new development tools on ci.jenkins.io: Maven, JDK, Playwright. 98 pull requests were merged from 38 different authors in January. Jenkins 2.375.2 released January 11, 2023. Over 350 positive ratings. A sandbox bypass vulnerability was corrected among 37 other vulnerabilities. The security team recommends users to upgrade. Debian 12 (“bookworm”) will not deliver OpenJDK 11 Contributed by:...

Alyssa Tong
Kevin Martens February 7, 2023
Jenkins 2022 Recap

2022 was a fruitful year for Jenkins! Across the Jenkins project, we experienced growth and strong contributions. We want to share deep gratitude to the corporate sponsorships and individual contributions that made it possible to take Jenkins to the next level. We also look forward to welcoming new friends to collaborate with us in working together to make Jenkins even better. There’s still a...

Alyssa Tong
Kevin Martens
Bruno Verachten January 12, 2023