Complex and long single-job Jenkins Job Pipleine Builds: There yet?

2016-10-07 Thread Martin Ba
Hi all. Been thinking on trying to migrate some of our stuff to Pipeline, *but*: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/39905978/complex-and-long-single-job-jenkins-job-pipleine-builds-there-yet # TL;DR Does it make sense to have one *single* Jenking Job Pipeline job for a full long-running deplo

Job Abort on Windows only kills child processes if jenkins-slave.exe ist running?

2016-05-30 Thread Martin Ba
Ver: LTS Jenkins ver. 1.625.2 We run our Windows Build nodes/slaves via the Windows Service jenkins-slave.exe Sometimes the Windows Service process "goes down", but its java.exe child process that is actually running the jenkins slave continues to work (fine). What we noticed with this is

"CloudBees Folders Plugin" ... current 2015 thoughts?

2015-12-10 Thread Martin Ba
Hi all! I was considering taking a look at the free Folders Plugin from Cloudbees, but reading a piece back from 2013 I'm a bit scared: full meassage see: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/jenkinsci-users/VcxGHiFvBAY/mDwr_hL-7JsJ On 28.10.2013 22:55, Daniel Beck wrote to jenkinsci-users

Re: Templates Plugin (Jenkins Enterprise)

2015-10-05 Thread Martin Ba.
>> ... you can dynamically change the logic of a build job by inventing your own job attributes. << Could you elaborate? I don't quite follow. cheers, Martin On 05.10.2015 13:57, Walter Kacynski wrote: I use the Enterprise Templates extensively. They are very powerful but difficult to debug

Templates Plugin (Jenkins Enterprise)

2015-10-01 Thread Martin Ba.
Hello users. I'm looking for independent opinions on the Jenkins Enterprise Templates Plugin. It would be one of the main reasons for us to adopt Jenkins Enterprise, but I was quite shocked to learn (see http://documentation.cloudbees.com/docs/cje-user-guide/temolate-sect-job-template-tutori

Re: Any disadvantages in reusing the jobs for multiple projects by passing parameters from the preceding job

2015-04-27 Thread Martin Ba
On 17.04.2015 18:05, Krishna Desiraju wrote: Could anyone please help to see if there are any potential disadvantages with this approach In our scenario, where we have multiple projects which get added frequently, we wanted to minimize the effort of creating jobs, so we thought of reusing the jo

Difference btw. Enterprise Role-Based-Access-Control and Free Role-Strategy Plugin?

2013-11-19 Thread Martin Ba
Hi everyone and esp. CloudBees! What are the main benefits the Jenkins Enterprise [Role-based Access Control Plugin][1] offers over the free [Role Strategy Plugin][2] ??? thanks for any insight, Martin [1] : http://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins-enterprise-by-cloudbees-features-role-based-access

Re: Notify "n Minutes before Job Starts"

2013-06-24 Thread Martin Ba
On 24.06.2013 09:44, VinodKumar wrote: I am looking for a plugin or way to notify people n minutes before the job actually starts. There was a plugin I saw a long time ago but I don't remember the name. It used to send notification at scheduled time then start actual job "n Minutes" after the sch

Re: Execute Clean Up on Build Cancel

2013-05-02 Thread Martin Ba
On 03.05.2013 03:36, Eric Blom wrote: Hello Everyone, We started using Jenkins about a year ago and have been very happy with it. We keep finding more way to use it! Some of our jobs use hardware connected to the slave and when that slave job is canceled we need to execute a clean up step, ho

Labels for executors? Re-use blocking executor for downstream job?

2013-03-29 Thread Martin Ba
Is there anything to allow for executors (instead of whole nodes) to be labeled? I know there's the workaround to just have the same machine run a second node, but that really does feel awkward. I'd want to use labeled executors to include Jobs from other Jobs with [Trigger/call builds on ot

(REST) API: How to check the build(s) in progress of a job?

2013-03-27 Thread Martin Ba
I have a Job that is a) Parameterized and b) allowed to [Execute concurrent builds if necessary]. I now have a second job that must not run when the first job is running with a specific set of parameters. As I can't cover this with the [Throttle Concurrent Builds Plugin] (nor any other plugi

Re: Jenkins on Windows: Java + JRE (version) confusion

2013-03-17 Thread Martin Ba
On 15.03.2013 11:45, Martin Ba wrote: I'll start with my questions: - * Should I run Jenkins on Windows with the included JRE (currentl 1.6_26) or should I run it with a more recent Java version? * Should I make sure slaves run within the same java version (

Jenkins on Windows: Java + JRE (version) confusion

2013-03-15 Thread Martin Ba
I'll start with my questions: - * Should I run Jenkins on Windows with the included JRE (currentl 1.6_26) or should I run it with a more recent Java version? * Should I make sure slaves run within the same java version (or at least bit-ness)? (Slaves don't have an "in

Re: Unexpected run on a [Leave this machine for tied jobs only]-node

2013-03-14 Thread Martin Ba
On 14.03.2013 21:50, Les Mikesell wrote: On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Martin Ba <0xcdcdc...@gmx.at> wrote: I'd say this is not intended: I have a node that has "Leave this machine for tied jobs only" set. It started to run a Job that certainly did not explicitly s

Unexpected run on a [Leave this machine for tied jobs only]-node

2013-03-14 Thread Martin Ba
I'd say this is not intended: I have a node that has "Leave this machine for tied jobs only" set. It started to run a Job that certainly did not explicitly set this node. However, this Job had "Restrict where this project can be run" set to: !master So, yes, this expression includes this

Re: why does 1.480.1 LTS offer me 1.493 as an upgrade?

2012-12-17 Thread Martin Ba
On 16.12.2012 09:50, Chris Withers wrote: Hi All, I've just upgraded my Jenkins install to 1.480.1 LTS is the hope of a bit more stability, however, the 'Manage Jenkins' screen is now offering 1.493 as an upgrade. I thought one you moved to an LTS release, only future LTS releases would be