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Hudson was built into something beautiful, and with a huge community, primarily through the efforts of one man, Kohsuke Kawaguchi. Then Oracle, claiming a trademark they did not have (and still do not have, though they have applied for it), and the control of the domain name on which development was taking place, asserted control over the project. The community of contributors (of around 400 people) voted at the end of January 2011, after two weeks of discussion, overwhelmingly -- 214 to 14 -- to reject Oracle's control, and instead rename the project to the safe haven of "Jenkins". However, they still invited Oracle to participate on the governance committee, pending a vote of the democratic community to appoint leaders. Oracle declined. Oracle has now taken the brand goodwill, created parallel servers, and is attempting to monetize this work -- and even falsely claim continuity of the community which they treated as chattel -- and which rejected their dictatorship bid.
Wise users, who enjoyed this project as Hudson -- will follow the people who made it the project worth attention -- and will continue with the vast majority of contributors to Jenkins. Oracle deserves the shunning they are already getting -- for this and many other spectacular affronts to the free software community.
I have used several continuous integration systems over last 7 years for building J2EE applications: Cruise Control, AntHill OS, AntHill pro 2.6 and 3.
I gave up on AntHill pro 3 because it was too complex to setup and developers did not like the busy UI.
Hudson on the contrary is very easy to setup and uses only XML configuration files instead of a database which is always a problem for backups and exports.
My Hudson configuration is under change control in Subversion.
Hudson 's UI is very easy to use and developers find their way very quickly.
My team current configuration is based on Hudson on top of Tomcat using ant, Subversion and ViewSVN. We plan to migrate to Maven which is also supported by Hudson.
There's no real manual only a wiki for starting up and then the online help is usually enough. If you need help, the mailing list is very helpful and the author Kohsuke Kawaguchi is very responsive and also very fast to fix issues.
Most Recent Reviews
Hudson was built into something beautiful, and with a huge community, primarily through the efforts of one man, Kohsuke Kawaguchi. Then Oracle, claiming a trademark they did not have (and still do not have, though they have applied for it), and the control of the domain name on which development was taking place, asserted control over the project. The community of contributors (of around 400 people) voted at the end of January 2011, after two weeks of discussion, overwhelmingly -- 214 to 14 -- to reject Oracle's control, and instead rename the project to the safe haven of "Jenkins". However, they still invited Oracle to participate on the governance committee, pending a vote of the democratic community to appoint leaders. Oracle declined. Oracle has now taken the brand goodwill, created parallel servers, and is attempting to monetize this work -- and even falsely claim continuity of the community which they treated as chattel -- and which rejected their dictatorship bid.
Wise users, who enjoyed this project as Hudson -- will follow the people who made it the project worth attention -- and will continue with the vast majority of contributors to Jenkins. Oracle deserves the shunning they are already getting -- for this and many other spectacular affronts to the free software community.
I have used several continuous integration systems over last 7 years for building J2EE applications: Cruise Control, AntHill OS, AntHill pro 2.6 and 3.
I gave up on AntHill pro 3 because it was too complex to setup and developers did not like the busy UI.
Hudson on the contrary is very easy to setup and uses only XML configuration files instead of a database which is always a problem for backups and exports.
My Hudson configuration is under change control in Subversion.
Hudson 's UI is very easy to use and developers find their way very quickly.
My team current configuration is based on Hudson on top of Tomcat using ant, Subversion and ViewSVN. We plan to migrate to Maven which is also supported by Hudson.
There's no real manual only a wiki for starting up and then the online help is usually enough. If you need help, the mailing list is very helpful and the author Kohsuke Kawaguchi is very responsive and also very fast to fix issues.