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The Jenkins project has issued an advisory to users that a couple of recent versions had been sending usage stats to the mothership, whether admins had hit the opt-out button for the continuous delivery platform or not. The advisory said: “A bug was introduced in Jenkins versions 1.645 and 1.642.2 which caused Jenkins to send …

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  1. hellwig

    This is why

    Our Jenkins instances can't access the internet.

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  2. Yag
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    An interesting usage stat...

    ... would be the amount of usage stat they received for those versions compared to the previous ones.

    I always wanted to know how many people turn such features off.

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  3. Anonymous Coward
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    Leeroy !!!!!

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  4. John Smith 19 Gold badge
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    Quite disturbing

    If I knew what the Jenkins project is.

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      Re: Quite disturbing

      Think cron with a web interface

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      1. streaky
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        Re: Quite disturbing

        Rofl.

        Think cron written in Java (can haz memory back) that actually isn't a cron at all that detects issues in code on a per-commit/push basis for developers that is basically designed to habitually embarrass poor developers (which is why we love CI)

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  5. Anonymous Coward
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    usage stats

    Hopefully these stats will be telling them just how damn slow it is to log on and that I have to log on many times a day because someone thought it would be a good idea to timeout the session after 20 mins. Yes I know you can increase the time out but that's even more hassle in this place due to the requests and sign offs it will need. #devopsnotreallydevops

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