Continuous Integration

After the recent divorce of Hudson and Jenkins following the tragical death of Hudson’s mother Sun and a long battle over trademark rights, Hudson seems to have come to senses and is planning to hand over the code to Eclipse.

I think distributed CI is the logical next step in the evolution of Continuous Integration by getting rid of the manual step of running a private build on the developer machine before committing to the master repository. Here is how I imagine this might work.

Last weekend I attended the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference (CITCON), which was held in Wellington for the first time. Paul Julius and Jeffrey Fredrick hosted their 13th conference and put on a great show, surprisingly by stepping back and letting the participants take over.

Update [15.05.2010]: I finally had a chance to try out SecureCI, which is pretty much exactly what I described in this post. The guys from Coveros did a great job, so I suggest after reading this post you head over to their website, download SecureCI and give it a go. Thanks John for pointing…