When starting to use Jenkins I started with a configuration of multiple nodes and most jobs are multiconfiguration jobs. As it turns out looking at the build results for these jobs is annoying and most jobs don’t need to be multiconfiguration jobs at all.

Jenkins doesn’t offer to re-configure the jobs and I decided to edit the config.xml file directly. The first thing I did is to change “matrix-project” to “project”. The next optional thing is to remove the “axes” nodes and the last and very important bit is to remove the “executionStrategy” node. If the last thing is not done the job will not be parsable and vanish from the jobs list. After making a configuration change I used the reload configuration option to get an immediate result.