From the course: Learning Jenkins

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 24,500 courses taught by industry experts.

Build description and source code management

Build description and source code management - Jenkins Tutorial

From the course: Learning Jenkins

Start my 1-month free trial Buy for my team

Build description and source code management

“

- [Instructor] Let's take a closer look at the job configuration page for the Hello World job. First, notice the tabs at the top of the forum. These outline the sections of the configuration and they also act as little fast forwarders that will take you directly to that section of the configuration. Let's start up here at the General section. The first item here is the Description. You can use this field to add free-form text that describes the job and what it does. A good name for the job goes a long way, but the description can be used to provide even more detail like when the job runs or any artifacts the job creates or anything else someone running the job might need to know. The discard old builds option is also very important. Jenkins keeps a record of each build along with any files generated by the build, including log files and artifacts. This is great if you want to review the history of a job, but old builds take…

Contents