For this week’s user spotlight segment, I’m talking with Doug MacEachern of Hyperic, part of SpringSource, a division of VMware, hoping I got that dependency chain correct. Hyperic builds enterprise systems monitoring and management software and also contributes to a number of open source projects, many of which are built with Hudson. To date I must say that Doug’s use of Hudson is one of...

This past week PyCon has been going on in Atlanta, where Titus Brown gave a talk titled: Why not run all your tests all the time? A study of continuous integration systems < Titus has some notable quotes "just use Hudson" but overall a good introduction of CI and a breakdown of some of the challenges behind continuous integration. He also does a good job going over...

The release of Hudson 1.347 last friday, February 19th, was a relatively "minor" one insofar that it contained an assortment of smaller fixes instead of fixes to major regressions (they weren’t any to be fixed) or major features added. There were however some notable commits in this release cycle that didn’t make the changelog just yet, for example https://twitter.com/godin[godin] committed an ebuild which will...

Last week’s TWIP enumerated the release of 26 different plugin, this past week has seen 19 unique releases in comparison. You might be tempted to assume that less plugin development has occurred over the past week, which isn’t the case. Last week a number of the releases were "code updates", i.e. plugins being rebuilt against the latest Hudson plugin API as opposed to new...

For this week’s user spotlight, I’m talking to Rasheed Abdul-Aziz of VisFleet Ltd. out of New Zealand. This being our second "spotlight" on a particular company, the format can still be considered beta; if you have any additional questions for Rasheed, feel free to ask them in the comments and I’ll try to get Rasheed to answer. Similar to the spotlight on ITA Software from last...

After some scrambling earlier in the week to get 1.345 out the door, correcting some regressions in 1.344, the Hudson team still rolled out a 1.346 release last Friday, February 12th, 2010. Similar to the past couple releases, 1.346 had a good number of bug fixes, including a a performance fix when dealing with larger build submissions and a substantial revision of the SCM...

Since this is the first "This Week in Plugins" (TWiP), I’m trying a fairly basic format out. I’m debating how much information I want to include in these, while I would like to include details on "what’s changed" for each plugin over the course of the week, the means of fetching that information would be incredibly tedious (read: no fun) since there’s not particularly...

For the first "User Spotlight" interview ever on Continuous Blog, I am talking with Matt Girard of ITA Software, a Boston-based software company that produces travel industry software which is used by many of the major carriers in the U.S. and abroad. When I sent out a message asking for users of Hudson in the corporate space to ping me about doing a "spotlight" on...

A lot has changed in the Hudson development and distribution infrastructure since last summer - we’ve made a distinct effort to get the quality of our infrastructure to match the quality of Hudson itself. We owe a special thanks to the wonderful folks over at Atlassian - we’re taking advantage of their generous open source license for our bug tracking (JIRA), wiki (Confluence), and...

As Kohsuke mentioned on the dev@ mailing list on January 29th, another series of community translations of Hudson have been committed (r26764) and have been released with the Hudson 1.344 release. The locales included in this update are: Czech Spanish Finnish French Hungarian Japanese Korean Lithuanian Norwegian Dutch Polish Brazilian Portuguese Russian Slovenian Swedish Chinese (Simplified/Traditional) If you’re fluent in any of the locales above, check out the latest release of Hudson to verify that the translations are correct, if there’s translations that you feel are...