Hello for trying hudson instead of continuum you need a hudson account.
You can ask matthias for adding you to the hudson-jobadmin group on people.apache.org modify_appgroups.pl hudson-jobadmin --add=<your apache username> see: http://wiki.apache.org/general/Hudson#How_do_I_get_an_account for recommended or mandatory settings see: http://wiki.apache.org/general/Hudson#Are_there_recommended_or_mandatory_Hudson_settings_for_ASF_projects.3F Regards Bernd