I just submitted JENKINS-15594 ( https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-15594). Ever since we've upgraded Jenkins to 1.486, we've had intermittent and sporadic failures in our jobs that use the CopyArtifacts plugin. I've confirmed that the job supplying the artifact files DOES exist, but the plugin can't seem to copy them. The intermittent nature of the bug is also odd - 20 jobs start together that all reference the same job and build to copy artifacts from. 5 will succeed, the other 15 will fail because no files are copied. So I know that the source build/job of the artifacts exist - but isn't always accessible.
I'm not sure if this problem is in the CopyArtifact plugin, or is it in the core. Maybe a locking/race problem in the core? Can anyone help with this issue? Thanks, Jason Swager