On Aug 19, 2013, at 12:03 PM, James Peach <jpe...@apache.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> I've mostly beaten jenkins-job-builder into shape. I can generate a set of 
> jobs that is almost the same as what we have in ci.trafficserver.org. The 
> only difference is lack of support for the build timeout plugin 
> <https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Build-timeout+Plugin>, and 
> locks. I'm not really sure that the "locks" thing does. I haven't added the 
> remote build trigger token because I'm not sure whether that's ok to put into 
> a public repo.
> 
> I think the advantages of using jenkins-job-builders are
>       - the ability to keep the jobs under source control
>       - consistency in the job definitions
>       - greater ability to make changes across multiple jobs
> 
> So if people agree that this is a good approach, I'd like to back up the 
> current set of jobs, then delete them and replace them with the generated set 
> to see how they goes.

I'm going to work on this today. Jenkins will be out of service for a while

J

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