Jenkins Plugins

[Chris Kelley]

Hi all,

I do user research for IBM's Bluemix DevOps Services, and I'm currently researching Jenkins plugin usage to help prioritize future releases/features. Any responses to the questions below would be much appreciated -

1. What Jenkins plugins are a requirement for use? In other words, you couldn't use Jenkins if they didn't exist.
2. What Jenkins plugins are do you find useful, but aren't necessarily a requirement for use?

Thanks in advance for your response!

- Chris Kelley
User Experience Research & Design
Bluemix DevOps Services
IBM Design

[Ginga, Dick]

This would be more believable if there were an @ibm.com email address

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[jieryn]

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Plugin+Installation+Statistics

Installations roughly correlates to votes, start there.

[Chris Kelley]

Not sure what's so 'unbelievable' about the question originating from a google account - given this is a google group, but for your info - kelleyc [AT] us dot ibm dot com.

I'd be more then happy to add it if you can tell me how to use a non-google address with a google group?

[Ginga, Dick]

I don’t know that answer. Just know 2 things:

 

We get some suspicious emails to this group at times and I am a member without a google address

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[Mark Waite]

On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 1:32 PM, jieryn <jie...@gmail.com> wrote:

https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Plugin+Installation+Statistics

Installations roughly correlates to votes, start there.

The plugin installation counts are a very useful data point.  They may need some additional thought for those plugins which are bundled with Jenkins, and thus may be counted as "installed" when the user may not be actively using them.

For example, the "Subversion" plugin is "installed" on all of my Jenkins servers, but is only actually used on a few of them.  I believe it is reported as installed on all of them, because it is a bundled plugin.  I don't bother to disable the bundled plugins, so even if the counts only included enabled plugins, it would not help.

Most plugins are not bundled, so their installation counts are a more likely indicator of usage than the counts for bundled plugins.

My "must have" plugins include:

• git and git client - source control
• credentials - authentication to source control
• elastic axis - combinations and permutations of slaves
• junit - java test result summary
  
• xshell - platform independent build task
• maven build task

My "very useful" plugins include:

• jacoco - java code coverage reporting
  
• findbugs - java bug detector
• cloudbees folder
• Xvnc - X server for desktop program tests
• javadoc - display Java API documentation

Mark Waite

 

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Thanks!

Mark Waite