Hudson

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.

Watch out. There is a new butler in town. Today the Hudson community representatives in the negotiations with Oracle announced that Hudson is likely to be renamed to Jenkins. The proposal also suggests to move all infrastructure off Oracle’s servers. This will be…

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…