Difference between revisions of "HudsonAndOtherPlugins"
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Great things about Hudson plugins: | Great things about Hudson plugins: | ||
| − | * Maven makes it easy to start | + | * [http://maven.apache.org/ Maven] makes it easy to start |
* [http://www.java.net/blogs/kohsuke/ Kohsuke] is really helpful and the [https://hudson.dev.java.net/mailing-lists.html Hudson developers' mailing list] is an excellent resource | * [http://www.java.net/blogs/kohsuke/ Kohsuke] is really helpful and the [https://hudson.dev.java.net/mailing-lists.html Hudson developers' mailing list] is an excellent resource | ||
* [http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Extend+Hudson Hudson wiki] has good plugin guides (if slightly out of date) and you can update them | * [http://wiki.hudson-ci.org/display/HUDSON/Extend+Hudson Hudson wiki] has good plugin guides (if slightly out of date) and you can update them | ||
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Not so great things about Hudson plugins: | Not so great things about Hudson plugins: | ||
* Can be hard to figure out where you should plug in for your particular task | * 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 | + | * [http://commons.apache.org/jelly/ Jelly] difficult to work with - have to know just where to put your file |
| − | * Community (including Kohsuke) are not Maven experts, so abstractions | + | * Community (including Kohsuke) are not Maven experts, so: |
| + | * can be hard to debug and fix [http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/LeakyAbstractions.html 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: | Hudson plugins we wish we had: | ||
Revision as of 08:39, 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- Hudson wiki has good plugin guides (if slightly out of date) and you can update them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 start which other jobs
- Grid Gain 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 >1GB RAM)
- Show timestamps in online console output, or even better, provide timings for each action (helps with performance-tuning your jobs)
