Difference between revisions of "HudsonAndOtherPlugins"

Revision as of 09:02, 24 September 2009

Great things about Hudson plugins:

Maven makes it easy to start
Kohsuke is really helpful and the Hudson developers' mailing list is an excellent resource
Hudson wiki has good plugin guides (if slightly out of date) and you can update them

Not so great things about Hudson plugins:

Can be hard to figure out where you should plug in for your particular task
Jelly difficult to work with - have to know just where to put your file
Community (including Kohsuke) are not Maven experts, so:
- can be hard to debug and fix leaky abstractions
- creating your pom.xml is hit-and-miss
Some plugins are version-locked to Hudson core version - break if you update Hudson

Hudson plugins we wish we had:

Dependency graph showing which jobs trigger which other jobs [https://hudson.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4321%7CHudson issue 4321)
GridGain integration (farms work out to multiple machines and JVMs as if in a single JVM)
Detect slave configuration and auto-tag and group (all Windows machines, all machines with over 1GB RAM)
Show timestamps in online console output, or even better, provide timings for each action (helps with performance-tuning your jobs)

Other tools:

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 Hudson plugins we wish we had:
-* Dependency graph showing which jobs trigger which other jobs
+* Dependency graph showing which jobs trigger which other jobs [https://hudson.dev.java.net/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4321|Hudson issue 4321)
 * [http://www.gridgain.com/ GridGain] integration (farms work out to multiple machines and JVMs as if in a single JVM)
 * Detect slave configuration and auto-tag and group (all Windows machines, all machines with over 1GB RAM)