By bloid
via blog.uncommons.org
Published: May 11 2008 / 03:21
This week Hudson was awarded the Duke’s Choice Award in the Developer Solutions category at JavaOne.
In the space of a couple of years, Hudson has come from nowhere to become the leading contender among Continuous Integration servers. It’s head and shoulders above the other free alternatives, and arguably at least as good as the commercial offerings.
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demetrios replied ago:
Because there are better alternatives?
Because it still has allot of problems, that even sun people complain about it? Just take a look at the some sun forums to see how many of the posts are hudson problems related: http://forums.java.net/jive/forum.jspa?forumID=73&start=0
Just being free is not an argument enough to choose something worse.
kohsuke replied ago:
Hi, I looked at what kind of issues Swing guys are facing, and it seems like most of discussions are not about Hudson issues, but about issues found by build failures on Hudson. Or are there issues in Hudson that I missed?
hhuynh replied ago:
Because the document is sorely lacking
kohsuke replied ago:
I thought the inline help in the configuration screen has been enough for most of the users that I've heard from. Is there any specific kind of documents that you are looking for?
TroubleX replied ago:
Because I tried it and failed to get it running even a simple local maven build. The settings are ambiguous and confusing.
kohsuke replied ago:
I'd greatly appreciate more information about the failures, ambiguity, and confusion. Those things always help us make Hudson better.
TroubleX replied ago:
Sorry, but I just don;t have the time to go into detail. Try looking at it as if for the first time. ;)
strangecaffeine replied ago:
Because the Perforce plugin is ... eh ... not working.
(At least the three times I have tried different versions of Hudson and the perforce plugin during the last year, every time after hearing someone praising Hudson)
I dont understand the praise it gets, could it be because of the looks?
The release pattern is also somewhat confusing ... :
https://hudson.dev.java.net/servlets/ProjectDocumentList?folderID=2761
"Stable" releases each and every day !? Sometimes more than one stable release a day? How can those releases be called "stable"?
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kohsuke replied ago:
Sorry to hear that the plugin didn't work for you. I'm sure the Perforce plugin developers would appreciate more failure reports.
As for the release pattern, I define "stable" as "things that passed all the tests and are expected to work nicely for production use."
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