As we near autumn up here in the Northern Hemisphere, the wind is starting to blow a bit chillier and here in the Bay Area that can only mean one thing: Oracle is suing everybody! it’s time for JavaOne! A whole lot has changed since last year, Sun Microsystems was acquired by Oracle, Kohsuke left Snoracle to found InfraDNA and Hudson has continued to power...

I’ll be in Copenhagen from 9/5-9/7 and in Oslo 9/8-9/9 to present in JavaZone. I’d like to take advantage of the opportunities and have user meet-up events in those cities. Depending on the number of participants, it could be just a drink in a bar, or a talk in a meeting room. So if you are: in those cities, available in the evening of 9/6, 9/8, or...

CloudBees announced the beta availability of their new Hudson-as-a-service "HaaS" today. I see this as yet another validation to Hudson, and as such, I welcome this new addition to the community and wish them well! — more companies betting on Hudson means we’ll get more investment to the project, which is all goodness for Hudson users. It’s been 5 months since I left Oracle...

On September 1st, I’ll be presenting in a Sauce Labs webinar about Hudson and Sauce OnDemand. The talk will discuss how Hudson can be used with Sauce OnDemand, naturally, but it’ll also cover broader Hudson/Selenium integrations. Please register to this free event, and looking forward to seeing to you virtually....

In late 2008, the Hudson team released version 1.264 which added an anonymous reporting feature (you can opt-out in the "Manage Hudson" screen). The reporting feature has been sending information back to the Hudson team to help us understand how Hudson is used in aggregate; the info being reported includes the number of jobs configured, agent configurations, what plugins (and what versions of those...

Last Friday the Hudson team rolled out a small 1.372 with two enhancements following the critical 1.371 release on Monday. Not a whole lot to say about this release other than go get it! Enhancements Persist matrix-based security settings in a consistent order (issue 7138) Jobs can now use boolean expression over labels to control where they run. You can go grab the latest .war file straight from...

The folks over at LMT Software just released their HudsonMobi 2.0 to the Android market. This release of HudsonMobi brings a lot of the features to Android that iPhone/iPad users of HudsonMobi have enjoyed for some time. Features unleashed to Android users in this revision of the app are: Full Android user-experience with Menu and back controls Embedded artifact viewer! For archived build artifacts that are text-based,...

Commits often come in a burst. This seems to happen mainly for two reasons — people sometimes forget to commit some files, and in the tranquility of waiting for your SCM to finish a commit, people sometimes realize the problems in the commit and they quickly make follow-up changes. The conventional wisdom is that the CI server should wait for the burst to finish before attempting...