On Fri, Aug 24, 2012 at 10:57 AM, Martin d'Anjou
<martin.danjo...@gmail.com> wrote:
> What is the plan to scale up Jenkins to handle a very large number of
> projects?
>
> Right now, I have 3 projects in Jenkins. They all have the same build flow,
> so any improvement or plugin I add to one of them, I manually copy it to the
> other two. As we are about to bring more projects to Jenkins, this manual
> copy and paste will quickly become a burden. Reverting a change that was
> copied by hand to multiple project is also a concern of similar nature.
>
> Has there been any thoughts given to how Jenkins can handle these cases?
>
> For example, could multiple projects inherit from a common template project,
> such that a change to a template would be reflected into multiple projects?
> I see a Template Project plugin, but there has been no activity for a year
> on it.
>
> I have no need to link projects together, so I have stayed away from the
> Workflow plugins. Should I look into them?
Normally the bulk of the work is done by build scripts/Make/project
files that are included in the source checkout and once you have one
or a few jenkins jobs working the way you want, you just tell jenkins
to copy a similar one when creating a new job, then change the
url/path to the different source in your VCS. There's not a big need
for templates, although it can be cumbersome if you want to change
something in a lot of jobs after they have already been created.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikes...@gmail.com
