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Tim Jacomb

Jenkins core maintainer, along with slack, azure-keyvault and configuration-as-code plugins. Tim started using Jenkins in 2013 and became an active contributor in 2018. Tim enjoys working on open source software in his “free” time.

2024 Jenkins Election Candidate Statements

Candidate nominations for the 2024 Jenkins elections are now complete. Thanks to everyone who submitted nominations and to the candidates that have accepted the nominations. Register to vote Voters must register an account on the Jenkins community forums and must have made at least one contribution to Jenkins before September 1, 2024. You can use an existing GitHub account or create a new account...

Basil Crow
Mark Waite
Valentin Delaye
Kris Stern
Alexander Brandes
Oleg Nenashev
Alex Earl
Stefan Spieker
Tim Jacomb October 3, 2024
See what's next for the Jenkins user interface - DevOps World 2024

This is a speaker blogpost for a DevOps World 2024 talk. We last gave a talk about the Jenkins user experience at DevOps World 2022. Two short years later, we’re back to showcase what’s new and upcoming in the world of Jenkins UX. We’ll discuss how we’re bringing the best of BlueOcean back to Jenkins, a redesigned builds widget, a new search...

Jan Faracik
Tim Jacomb August 29, 2024
See what's next for the Jenkins user interface - DevOps World 2022

This is a speaker blogpost for a DevOps World 2022 talk in Orlando, Florida ... at the 'Transformation of the Jenkins User Interface and Where it’s Going Next' talk at DevOps World 2022, Thursday, September 29 10:45 AM - 11:30 AM EDT. We’ll be giving a talk on the history of the Jenkins user interface, where we stand today, and a look...

Jan Faracik
Tim Jacomb August 26, 2022
Introducing external storage for JUnit test results

In common CI/CD use-cases a lot of the space is consumed by test reports. This data is stored within JENKINS_HOME, and the current storage format requires huge overheads when retrieving statistics and, especially, trends. In order to display trends, each report has to be loaded and then processed in-memory. The main purpose of externalising Test Results is to optimize Jenkins performance and storage by querying...

Tim Jacomb October 28, 2021
Read-only Jenkins Configuration

I’m excited to announce that the 'read-only' Jenkins feature is now available for preview. This feature allows restricting configuration UIs and APIs while providing access to essential Jenkins system configuration, diagnostics, and self-monitoring tools through Web UI. Such mode is critical for instances managed as code, e.g. with Jenkins Configuration-as-Code plugin. It is delivered as a part of the JEP-224: Readonly system configuration...

Tim Jacomb May 25, 2020
GitHub App authentication support released

This blogpost was updated to reflect the general availability of the feature after the release of GitHub Branch Source 2.7.1 on April 26th, 2020. I’m excited to announce support for authenticating as a GitHub app in Jenkins. This has been a long awaited feature by many users. It has been released in GitHub Branch Source 2.7.1 which is now available in the Jenkins...

Tim Jacomb April 16, 2020
Introducing the Azure Key Vault Credentials Provider for Jenkins

Azure Key Vault is a product for securely managing keys, secrets and certificates. I’m happy to announce two new features in the Azure Key Vault plugin: a credential provider to tightly link Jenkins and Azure Key Vault. huge thanks to Jie Shen for contributing this integration with the configuration-as-code plugin. These changes were released in v1.8 but make sure to run the latest version of...

Tim Jacomb March 30, 2020