diff --git a/run.sh b/run.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000..1ae53c5f5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/run.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,51 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env bash
+
+# This script is suitable for local use.
+# It is also invoked by Jenkins (from scripts/jobs/integrate/community-build).
+
+# usage:
+# ./run.sh
+# ./run.sh project1
+# ./run.sh project1,project2,project3
+
+set -e
+set -o pipefail
+
+export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
+export HOME="$(pwd)"
+
+DBUILDVERSION=0.9.5
+echo "dbuild version: $DBUILDVERSION"
+
+DBUILDCONFIG=community.dbuild
+echo "dbuild config file: $DBUILDCONFIG"
+
+if [ ! -f "$DBUILDCONFIG" ]
+then
+  echo "File not found: $DBUILDCONFIG"
+  exit 1
+fi
+
+if [ ! -d "dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}" ]
+then
+  wget "http://repo.typesafe.com/typesafe/ivy-releases/com.typesafe.dbuild/dbuild/${DBUILDVERSION}/tgzs/dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}.tgz"
+  tar xfz "dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}.tgz"
+  rm "dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}.tgz"
+fi
+
+# sigh, Ubuntu has nodejs but OS X has node
+if hash nodejs 2>/dev/null; then
+    export NODE=nodejs
+else
+    export NODE=node
+fi
+
+# use -n since running locally you don't want notifications sent,
+# and on our Jenkins setup it doesn't actually work (for now anyway)
+
+echo "dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}/bin/dbuild" -n "$DBUILDCONFIG" "${@}"
+"dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}/bin/dbuild" -n "$DBUILDCONFIG" "${@}" 2>&1 | tee "dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}/dbuild.out"
+STATUS="$?"
+BUILD_ID="$(grep '^\[info\]  uuid = ' "dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}/dbuild.out" | sed -e 's/\[info\]  uuid = //')"
+echo "The repeatable UUID of this build was: ${BUILD_ID}"
+exit "$STATUS"
diff --git a/scripts/dbuild-runner.sh b/scripts/dbuild-runner.sh
deleted file mode 100755
index 975f5326b..000000000
--- a/scripts/dbuild-runner.sh
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,76 +0,0 @@
-#!/usr/bin/env bash
-set -e
-set -o pipefail
-export LANG="en_US.UTF-8"
-export HOME="$(pwd)"
-
-if [ "$#" -lt "2" ]
-then
-  echo "Usage: $0 <dbuild-file> <dbuild-version> [<dbuild-options>]"
-  exit 1
-fi
-DBUILDCONFIG="$1"
-DBUILDVERSION="$2"
-shift;shift
-
-if [ ! -f "$DBUILDCONFIG" ]
-then
-  echo "File not found: $DBUILDCONFIG"
-  exit 1
-fi
-
-echo "dbuild version: $DBUILDVERSION"
-echo "dbuild config: $DBUILDCONFIG"
-#sed 's/"\([^@"]*\)@[^"]*\.[^"]*"/"\1@..."/g' <"$DBUILDCONFIG"
-
-strip0() {
-  echo $(($(echo "$1" | sed 's/^0*//')))
-}
-
-if [ ! -d "dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}" ]
-then
-  a=( ${DBUILDVERSION//./ } )
-  maj=$(strip0 "${a[0]}")
-  min=$(strip0 "${a[1]}")
-  patch=$(strip0 "${a[2]}")
-  if [[ ( $maj -lt 1 ) && ( $min -lt 9 ) ]]
-  then
-    # old location for dbuild <0.9.0 (stored on S3)
-    wget "http://downloads.typesafe.com/dbuild/${DBUILDVERSION}/dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}.tgz"
-  else
-    if [[ ( $maj -lt 1 ) && ( $min -eq 9 ) && ( $patch -lt 2) ]]
-    then
-      # new location for dbuild 0.9.[01] (regular artifact)
-      wget "http://repo.typesafe.com/typesafe/temp-distributed-build-snapshots/com.typesafe.dbuild/dbuild/${DBUILDVERSION}/tgzs/dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}.tgz"
-    else
-      # new location for dbuild >=0.9.2 (regular artifact)
-      wget "http://repo.typesafe.com/typesafe/ivy-releases/com.typesafe.dbuild/dbuild/${DBUILDVERSION}/tgzs/dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}.tgz"
-    fi
-  fi
-  tar xfz "dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}.tgz"
-  rm "dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}.tgz"
-  # work around https://github.com/typesafehub/dbuild/issues/175
-  # until we can move to a newer version of dbuild that has the fix;
-  # see https://github.com/scala/community-builds/issues/108 .
-  # note that this only actually applies if you run dbuild with
-  # `-l` or `-r`, which tells dbuild to ignore the list of resolvers
-  # in common.conf and use its built-in list instead.  but my
-  # current understanding is that the resolver list in common.conf
-  # should be fine both for Jenkins and for local operation. - ST 9/4/2015
-  sed -i.bak "s/typesafe.artifactoryonline.com/repo.typesafe.com/g"  "dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}/bin/"*.properties
-  sed -i.bak "s/scalasbt.artifactoryonline.com/repo.scala-sbt.org/g" "dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}/bin/"*.properties
-fi
-
-# sigh, Ubuntu has nodejs but OS X has node
-if hash nodejs 2>/dev/null; then
-    export NODE=nodejs
-else
-    export NODE=node
-fi
-
-echo "dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}/bin/dbuild" "${@}" "$DBUILDCONFIG"
-"dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}/bin/dbuild" "${@}" "$DBUILDCONFIG" 2>&1 | tee "dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}/dbuild.out"
-STATUS="$?"
-BUILD_ID="$(grep '^\[info\]  uuid = ' "dbuild-${DBUILDVERSION}/dbuild.out" | sed -e 's/\[info\]  uuid = //')"
-echo "The repeatable UUID of this build was: ${BUILD_ID}"
-exit "$STATUS"
diff --git a/scripts/jobs/integrate/community-build b/scripts/jobs/integrate/community-build
index c2ae9c65d..cc5aad603 100755
--- a/scripts/jobs/integrate/community-build
+++ b/scripts/jobs/integrate/community-build
@@ -1,10 +1,14 @@
 #!/usr/bin/env bash
 
-DBUILDVERSION=0.9.5
+set -e
 
 # otherwise these directories just keep growing.
 # see scala/scala-jenkins-infra#115
 rm -rf target-$DBUILDVERSION/project-builds
 rm -rf target-$DBUILDVERSION/extraction
 
-scripts/dbuild-runner.sh "community.dbuild" "$DBUILDVERSION" "${@}"
+# TODO: in scala-jenkins-infra, make an actual parameter for
+# specifying projects to be built, instead of hijacking the
+# "scala_build_extra_opt" name for that purpose
+
+./run.sh $scala_build_extra_opt