[jenkins] notes from last jenkins user conference 2013

[Eyal Edri]

Fyi,

Some of the infra members attended the last jenkins conf in israel.
(http://www.cloudbees.com/jenkins/juc2013/juc2013-israel-abstracts.cb)

Slides/Videos will be available later on from cloudbees.

Here are some info we think might be relevant to oVirt:

Builds:
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* Bintray - https://bintray.com/howbintrayworks#page1  (sort of like github for binaries, including rpms, from jFrog) - replace resources.ovirt.org?
* Log ovirt downloads - idea came up to count ovirt downloads if we're not doing it already


Misc Jenkins plugins:
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* Database plugin - some plugins supports storing data in db - excellent for reporting
                     https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Database+Plugin
                     https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Audit+To+Database+Plugin
                     
* Job generator plugin - https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Job+Generator+Plugin
                                                 
* Build flow plugin - https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Build+Flow+Plugin
                    - build complex build flows, uses DSL
                        
* Jenkow plugin - bpmn https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Jenkow+Plugin) - 
                     - early release, adds supprt for RBMS
                     - integration of http://activiti.org/
                      
* Parallel test executor plugin - https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Parallel+Text+Executor+Plugin
                        - new way to run parallel jobs > splits the job into n parts and runs in parallel

* Recepie plugin - https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Recipe+Plugin
                      - share jobs with community, might be a good option to increase exposure of oVirt via jenkins.


Hope we can find some of these useful for oVirt.

Eyal.