What a great way to conclude 2010 - maven 3 Job support in Hudson.

I know what I am going to do today ... :)

Release announcment on hudson-ci.org:

JBoss, Selenium, Maven, Hudson, M2 Extra Steps & Files Found Trigger plugins - how do all these work together in a continuous build + Integration test life-cycle ?

The Story - The Use Case:

We have two projects with two war artifacts which need to be deployed to a JBoss Application Server, whilst both webapps share a common base configuration, although the release life-cycle of each war have no correlation to the other.

In production both application servers are running & serving one another thus, Integration test should cover both JBoss instances & test their web services.

I had tow motivations of getting rid of the All view

1. The All view is quite annoying don't you think? After using Hudson for a while you have tens/hundreds of jobs lined up in a huge list - who needs that right.
2. I wanted a "hidden jobs section" - Jobs no one but myself (and who ever needs access to it) can see.

In order to get rid of it (the All view) simply:

Nexus Open Source 1.5.0 released.

Read Sonatype's official blog @: http://www.sonatype.com/people/2010/01/announcing-nexus-1-5-0-ldap-archi...

On the 15th of December 2009 Mridul Narayanan discovered an Anti Drupal ad which definitely caused a large number of web services to work "extra hours" - various blogs, twitter, Google searches & adwords etc etc ... were all talking on about the big threat Drupal is to Microsoft, I am not sure I understand the big fuss. Microsoft are just showing us over and over again that Open Source software is here to stay and it should be treated as they treat any other competition.

TryStack [announced Feb 16th], is a test bed of OpenStack's "latest and gratest" - well not quite the latest and graetest but it will get there...,   you can watch the presntation by Jay Pipes on TryStack's architecture and services  here .

This is a great opertunity of understanding what OpenStack can give you without starting setting it up yourself, atough there are a few howto's around on how to go about and do so to.

For all the solaris lovers out there, Jenkins is going to release a package for the IPS package manager for solaris.

Read all about it here.

According to: the451groupblog  Ubuntu is going to support OpenStack. Eucalyptus will still be supported but I belief such a statment means that most of the devlopment / integration efforts will be put into OpenStack, The title chosen by 451 group "Ubuntu broadening cloud coverage" could be right in terms of a deal setup with Vmware's Cloudfoundry and Ubuntu 11.10, but I am not sure Eucalyptus will servive the test of time, I guess we will have to wait and see ...

A few quotes from the blog post:

Writing Jenkins (F.K.A hudson) plugins in ruby ...

"This doesn't mean that we're done and that you can go forth and write pure ruby plugins... not by any stretch of the imagination. Instead, what it does mean, is that the Jenkins mainline is much more friendly to runtime analysis of classes with which it is not familiar.

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There is still much work to be done to enable a writing Jenkins plugins in Ruby, we are looking for people who know Ruby and feel like pitching in: writing Rake tasks, improving the glue layer, documentation, etc."

Read the full post here

Well, there is nothing like a simple and easy innovative solutions to save the day -it's been around for quite a while and never really needed it until now ...

Use Case:

we moved Subversion from server A to server B and we wanted to bea ble to utilze the same backup scripts we were using so one (not real elegant way) was to mount the remote location via NFS which has its issues, from time to time you will meet stale NFS records and such so that is almost in all cases out of the question.

A neat solution would be to mount over SSH a specific directory run svnhotbackup and close the share, I took this to another level by utilising this over a VDSL connection which worked like a charm, so how do we do this ?

If you are on Ubuntu (see install snippet below):