New beginnings for Hudson at Eclipse

By Jason van Zyl

May 18, 2011 — (Page 1 of 2)

Hudson’s move to the Eclipse Foundation marks the beginning of a new, exciting chapter of possibilities for the open-source continuous integration server project and its community of users. While some question the sincerity and motivation behind Oracle’s decision to move Hudson to the Eclipse Foundation, and others react to perceived poor communication or licensing issues, the majority has been positive and encouraging, a sentiment I hope will continue to resonate and multiply within the Java developer community and bring us closer to reconciliation.

The Eclipse Foundation is an ideal home and should be very attractive for those interested in reuniting the community, mending the fork and advancing open-source software innovation. As SD Times’ David Rubinstein pointed out in his blog, “Eclipse has a great record of building community around open-source projects (rapid releases) that are then productized (stability), and both sides of the Hudson/Jenkins fork should be satisfied.”

I couldn’t agree more. At Sonatype, our perspective regarding the Hudson project has always been a simple one: We have been and will continue to be committed to advancing Hudson and making better software available to the community of Hudson users.

As a Strategic Member at Eclipse, we know first-hand that the Foundation’s infrastructure, processes and oversight are excellent. Eclipse is the place for a popular project like Hudson to mature, and now is the time for the Hudson and Jenkins communities to reunite. More resources than ever will be poured into Hudson. Oracle will continue to be a leading contributor with several full-time engineers on the project. Oracle and Sonatype have been working diligently to add fundamental architectural improvements to Hudson to improve stability and performance, and help spur continued innovation.

Early interest and commitment of resources from other industry-leading companies like VMware and Tasktop illustrate the industry’s interest in moving the project to a vendor-neutral ground, and the importance of Hudson as a key foundation for agile software development. In fact, a recent survey of more than 1,600 Java developers found that 80% of those surveyed have adopted CI and 75% of those CI users are using or experimenting with Hudson.

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