This is linked from their but just to make it easier to find
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jenkins_(software). Jenkins is actually very
cool and also helps run (and keep track of) the consumers for our donation
service for example.
James
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:16 PM, Chris McMahon <cmcmahon(a)wikimedia.org>wrote;wrote:
On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Derric Atzrott <
datzrott(a)alizeepathology.com> wrote:
So I hate to be that guy who doesn't know the
simple things, but what is
Jenkins? The server has come up in discussion a few times since I joined
this mailing list about a month ago.
And since no one has mentioned it yet, you might want to read
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continuous_integration.
Jenkins is an open source system for doing CI. It used to be called
Hudson. (Those are both names of butlers, which has always been the mascot
of the project.) Over time, Jenkins has become a very powerful hub for
automated testing and deployment, and most serious software projects
integrate with Jenkins via "plugins". (Although some of those projects
don't do it very well, Fitnesse for example.)
-C
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