Concourse Update (Feb 12–16)
If you haven’t heard the news by now, we released Concourse v3.9.0 this week 🎉🎉🎉! Two of the top-line features in this release are:
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Concourse Updates (Feb 5 — Feb9)
We spent some time this week wrapping up additional testing on our certs management across workers. We also put down some of work on Spaces this week to play around with something fun: a high density dashboard view. A lot of you have been asking us when Concourse v3.9.0 will be available, and the answer is: very soon!
Concourse Updates (Jan 29 — Feb 2, 2018)
As a Product Manager at Pivotal, one of my responsibilities is to write weekly updates to let Pivots know what the Concourse team has been up to for the past week. When the Concourse team got together earlier this month for our 2018 planning, we decided that we should be sharing these updates with our community as a whole. So, without further ado, here’s our first update of 2018!
Concourse at SpringOne 2017
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Topher Bullock, Lindsay Auchinachie, Alex Suraci and I will be traveling to San Francisco next week to attend the SpringOne Platform 2017 Conference. Not only are there a lot of exciting Spring talks this year, but there will be a lot of CI/CD talks from some amazing speakers.
How the Concourse Team Organize Issues
As the Concourse team continues to grow in size and in the # of incoming issues, the team has been experimenting with new ways of managing our backlog. So far we have tried three different setups:
The Concourse Crew (2017)
In 2014 the Concourse CI project started with just two engineers; Alex Suraci and Chris Brown. At the time, both Alex and Chris were working on the Pivotal Cloud Foundry team. Over time, they became increasingly frustrated by existing CI/CD solutions. In response, Alex and Chris worked on designing a new CI/CD system in their spare time; imagining a new type of CI/CD system that would treat pipelines as first class citizens. After building some early prototypes and seeing early success internally within Pivotal, Concourse as released as an open source project with sponsorship from Pivotal.