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More Hudson adoptions

Hudson has been running for a while for NetBeans, SwingLabs, JBoss, and Apache Lucene, bute lately I'm seeing more adoptions — for example, OpenDS, OCTO technology, OpenJFX, SourceLabs, and Amazon Fresh.

Those are publicly verifiable Hudson usages, but CI servers tend to be used inside a company firewall, so most of the adoptions are happening in places that I can't really point you to. Fortunately, when I look at the access log of Hudson website, sometimes the referers indicate where people are running Hudson, and those include quite a few major financial companies and technology companies (I wish I could give you names but I suppose doing so without a consent is a violation of privacy.)

Plugins are making progress, too. There's the long-awaited ClearCase plugin. FindBugs, task scanner, and cobertura plugins are all making new releases very frequently, some as frequent as once a week. I also discovered a work-in-progress Hudson plugin for IntteliJ IDEA on Google Code, too.

Finally, I just also noticed that Hudson is ranked #1 in CVS commits among java.net projects in Auguest, and #2 in mail traffic. And considering the fact that most of Hudson web contents are on Wiki outside java.net, I think it's worth noting that it still ranked #8 in project hit.

Comments

• Mentioning frequent releases, is there any easier way to upgrade Hudson and related plugins than checking the websites regularly and doing all upgrades by hand? I think a built-in upgrade feature would come very handy.

  Posted by: kjozsa on September 17, 2007 at 12:01 AM

• Mentioning frequent releases, is there any easier way to upgrade Hudson and related plugins than checking the websites regularly and doing all upgrades by hand? I think a built-in upgrade feature would come very handy.

  Posted by: kjozsa on September 17, 2007 at 12:01 AM

• It's a well deserved success. BTW in this moment I'm teaching a customer how to install and use Hudson... :-)

  Posted by: fabriziogiudici on September 17, 2007 at 03:57 AM

• when can we put hudson in the update center? - eduard/o

  Posted by: pelegri on September 17, 2007 at 07:03 AM

• Yeah, there's some discussion about update center in Hudson to let you pick up new plugins. Updating Hudson itself automatically is bit tricky, because how to do that depends on containers.

  Posted by: kohsuke on September 17, 2007 at 12:57 PM

• Eduardo, I need to talk to Update center guys about how to put Hudson and Metro into the update center.

  Posted by: kohsuke on September 17, 2007 at 12:57 PM

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