Mark Diggory wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> I see Simile is now running Hudson,  I've been using Continuum to CI  
> for the DSpace community for about a year now.  Can you comment on  
> your choice of Hudson over Continuum, is there some features that  
> "raise the bar"?

There's a slight disconnect to our group experience as Stefano set up 
our first Continuum CI and I did Hudson later, so I don't have the 
direct experience of both.  Stefano had his reasons for wanting to move 
past Continuum, but I don't recall what they are, though I believe we 
stopped Continuum because the cost for any CI on our hardware resources 
at the time was too high.

I speak mostly as an admin.  Hudson is easy to set up.  It works with 
our SVN+MVN environment, and while Maven2 integration wasn't good when 
we first installed it, getting a useful build is still fairly simple to 
accomplish.  (I should go back and see if there's a better release now). 
  The UI is decent and doesn't require I open up vi and hack on XML; but 
I could.  The config structure fits in Subversion.  Most of the user 
features you want are there (targeted email, basic and extended web 
reports), and others took little time to integrate, like a build bot in 
our IRC channel, and in the end, my experience with it is that it does 
just what it's supposed to, and well.

While I can't give you a clear distinction between Continuum and Hudson, 
I did try CruiseControl.  It's not worth it; also, I expect visually it 
would give users a headache.

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Ryan Lee                  [EMAIL PROTECTED]
MIT CSAIL Research Staff  http://simile.mit.edu/
http://people.csail.mit.edu/ryanlee/
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