Jenkins, love and hate

A moment of love/hate with Jenkins today.

Hate first, as was reminded me how brittle it is as world around it moves forward. Reasonably sure there’s a core functionality that was moved to a plugin and I’ll have to figure out what that is.

But lots of love, this has been running (patched and updated…) for over four years now, and it still does its job.

From time to time I look back and think we could’ve done it so differently. I’ve now becoming more accustomed to realising that this view, the hindsight, makes us forget that many of the nice things we have now did not exist four years ago.

We’ve come a long way, and the journey continues.