[ANN] reactor-plugin : for programmatic downstream triggering

[Nigel Magnay]

If you are, like me, living (on the bleeding edge / the dream) that is workflow-multibranch, you may have scenarios where you need to manage triggering of downstream builds.

In particular, if you have multiple (dev, release) branches of an upstream project, leading to multiple (dev,release) branches in a downstream project, managing them all with explicit triggering can be time-consuming and prone to error when someone suddenly changes an upstream project version.

So I knocked up a quick plugin 

Basically you can specify triggers in small groovy scripts, and fire events to trigger them at any stage of your build. e.g: We use this to start up customer builds before the main build has completely finished.

Details & example projects:

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

https://github.com/magnayn/reactor-plugin-test-upstream

https://github.com/magnayn/reactor-plugin-test-downstream

(v < 1.0) --> quick 'n' dirty, WIP, &c &c.