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...

We all know that keeping important files in version control is critical, as it ensures problematic changes can be reverted and can serve as a backup mechanism as well. Code and resources are often kept in version control, but it can be easy to forget your continuous integration (CI) server itself! If a disk were to die or fall victim to a misplaced rm...

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...

The latest release of Hudson, 1.344, was released on February 5th, 2010. The release contains primarily bug-fixes but has a few enhancements baked into it as well. As mentioned in "[Incoming! More Translations", 1.344 incorporates a number of community-driven translations (see the other post for more information). Additionally, 1.344 removes the "easter egg" background image I wrote about in a post to my personal...

As I mentioned in the footer of the post on the Hudson 1.344 release, there were a couple big regressions in the 1.344 release that were causing a number of users issues (such as issue 5536 and issue 5546). As a result, Kohsuke and the team have quickly pushed out a hot-fix release: 1.345. Here’s the break down: Bugs fixed: Update center retrieval, "build now" link, and...

Hello and welcome to "Continuous Blog", the official Hudson weblog! If you don’t mind me saying so, I think its arrival is long overdue. Since Hudson started in November of 2006, there hasn’t been a central "voice" for the project. In just a few short years Hudson has grown into a substantial project with hundreds of plugins and thousands of users around the world. Kohsuke's nice Java-based extensible continuous integration...