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-- Hans Dockter Founder, Gradle http://www.gradle.org, http://twitter.com/gradleware CEO, Gradleware - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting http://www.gradleware.com On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 4:03 PM, phil swenson <[email protected]> wrote: > to me jenkins jobs should be version controlled too. you should be able to > check out jenkins configurations from VCS and create/execute jobs via > gradle. I don't know much about jenkins, but should be doable. > Over time, the type of jenkins jobs you run can change drastically. This > knowledge will be lost from version to version unless you check the jenkins > config into VCS. > I think we are saying the same thing largely here... > does this make sense? > > On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 10:23 PM, Hans Dockter <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Yes. We think that would be a great feature. >> I had recently a chat about this with Stefan Wolf, a Jenkins committer. >> Here is why we think that would be a cool feature: >> - CI Jobs are version controlled (specified in the build script). So for >> example you can set them easily up for older versions. >> - You may have many jobs per project. They may vary over time. You might >> have for example multiple jobs just for executing a set of integration tests >> to use the distribution feature of Jenkins. You might have one just for >> compiling (in some large projects), one for unit tests, .... You also might >> have multiple branches living on Jenkins. So being able to automize the >> Jenkins set up may save a lot of time to some projects. Think also about >> short lived feature branches with Git. >> Hans >> -- >> Hans Dockter >> Founder, Gradle >> http://www.gradle.org, http://twitter.com/gradleware >> CEO, Gradleware - Gradle Training, Support, Consulting >> http://www.gradleware.com >> >> On Fri, Sep 30, 2011 at 9:15 PM, phil swenson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> >>> has anyone tried controlling/launching jenkins jobs from gradle? >>> so instead of going to jenkins UI and clicking "build now", you might >>> have a gradle task: >>> gradle jenkinsSnapshot >>> comments? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this list, please visit: http://xircles.codehaus.org/manage_email
