Template plugin for Jenkins
I have found ez-templates plugin to behave well for Jobs templating. It is very young project and you will have to build it by yourself (which is very simple, see below), but still it is much more powerful than Template Project Plugin as it supports any types of jobs.
How to build:
- Install Maven 3
- Clone/download the ez-templates git repo
- Run 'mvn install' from the ez-templates checkout folder
- Once build is ready go to the 'target' folder and find the ez-templates.hpi which is self contained plugin binary.
The Job Generator Plugin was released after this question was asked, which may fulfil some people's needs.
Unfortunately the Template Project Plugin still has some issues, particularly in that it lacks support for job parameters.