The State of the Jenkins Project

A few weeks ago our very own Kohsuke Kawaguchi gave a presentation at the Silicon Valley CI Summit held in Mountain View.

Within the presentation, Kohsuke included a collection of numbers about the vibrancy of the Jenkins project that certainly hasn't gotten enough attention. While the slideshow is embedded below, here's some good high-level points:

• Over 170 GitHub pull requests in the past four months, with more being sent every day.
• Formalization of a "Jenkins Stable" branch of development with longer release cycles and back-ported bugfixes.
• Over 280 tickets in JIRA have been resolved.
• After posting a "special" release of Hudson which presents users with a choice, 87.25% are choosing to upgrade to Jenkins.
• Over 500 tickets have been created
• Roughly 13,000 downloads of jenkins.war and native packages a week
• New and vibrant community-driven initiatives like Frederic Camblor's plugin compatibility tester and Charles Lowell's JRuby plugin support project.
• We've crossed 1500 participants on the jenkinsci-user mailing list, and are over 900 participants on the jenkinsci-dev list.
• The @jenkinsci twitter account recently crossed the 4,000 follower threshold.

On a personal note, I think this speaks all to the level of unbridled enthusiasm about the future of Jenkins by contributors both new and old.

Without further delay, the slides: