HudsonAndOtherPlugins
From CitconWiki
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- Hudson wiki has good plugin guides (if slightly out of date) and you can update them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:
- TeamCity also has plugins
- Cruise, BuildForge don't seem to
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