Notes from the First Jenkins User Conference

A presentation by Kohsuke Kawaguchi kicked off the event, providing a quick overview of Jenkins history, governance and product status. It also touched on the Jenkins / Hudson debate. Per Kohsuke, Hudon’s joining the Eclipse foundation had no material impact on market share numbers. I am sure Hudson would tell a different story, but some of the numbers seemed to support that claim quite well (update hits per week, anonymous usage stats, ticket activity, mailing list / twitter traffic etc.). Notably that session also discussed a few ‘product roadmap’ features (or rather, ‘things we would like to work on’ features): Test parallelization, distributed execution assistance, and ability to add plug-ins w/o restarts.