Also the idea with this is not just a volunteer, as that is just a simple part of this plugin. We wanted to create something more to handle the red builds. There are still bugs I need to fix but I was about to update our production server so I wanted to update this at the same time so I got a bit trigger happy.
I started looking at adding new features for the claim plugin in 2011-2012 (think this was when we migrated to Jenkins) but as I found that it was easier for us to just start over as it was not much done back then (I checked it out from SVN and could not even build it). The plugin did not do much back then and we wanted to make a few changes so I started from scratch. Back then it took me less time then to try to get the claim plugin to compile and work. Also this gave me the freedom to build it from ground up as I wanted it. We've changed a few things along the way and we are now looking at expanding the plugin even more and see what we can do to make it easier to handle the red builds internally. As I developed it in house I could also break capability a few times without affecting anyone else but now I feel that I don't need to do that anymore so I was hoping to push it out to the community. Some things that we wanted to as part of a red build process (bad word, I know) * exposing data to the API so it can be used to create reports outside of Jenkins * Add the possibility to push issues from other plugins so people could volunteer to fix specific issues instead of entire builds * We also found it useful to volunteer teams as well as people as most of the time this gets problems solved faster and people don't feel so targeted. * Build failure report for less technical persons to get a better view of the big picture (and yes, noticed that I broke it just before release) For me I just thought it would be nice to give back a little more to the community but we can continue to use this as an in house plugin. Even if I would prefer to not continue to keep it in house only. We have made some stuff that could (or could not) be useful to others and I thought this was a place to start as this was something we had made standalone from the rest of the code that I can not share. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/046abe80-ba10-483a-acbc-0770c076bb6d%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
