The next installment in this series is Eric Lefevre presenting Hudson. Hudson is an open source CI server that has gained a fantastic amount of ground in the past year or two. Out of the box it has a pretty good feature set: Distributed builds. You can declare a dependency on a particular OS and [...]
(image taken from oskay’s photostream) Packages are your friend. Really. If you’ve done systems admin for a while, you’ll realise that it’s worth the effort to do installations via a package. There’s 2 main benefits to my mind: You can easily remove the software later, upgrade it, or both In some systems you can also [...]
Eric Lefevre just posted an analysis on download stats for both CI tools. Interesting. Link
Downloading Hudson via SSH session to my build server I don’t work for ThoughtWorks anymore. I resigned from the Buildix team. Well, I hadn’t checked into the Buildix svn repository since February 2007 anyhow. Now free to evaluate the alternatives to CruiseControl. I might stick with CruiseControl, I might not. Anyhow, tonight I had a [...]