Our goal for the first Fuse day was to start working with the new framework and these were our achievements by the end of the day:
- Added a tab (plugin) for Hudson - went pretty smooth!
- Added plugin that handles Hudson integration with Bugzilla inside the framework - replace the link to Bugzilla created by Hudson Bugzilla plugin with the link to Bugzilla inside the ALM2 - still have some problems that need to be fixed.
- Added Tikal header as a plugin - also have some problems that still need to be fixed.
- Add dashboard "boxes" for existing components - just started with the one of the "boxes".
- "How to add a plugin" document for "tab" plugins
Although we had a nice progress with the planned items, the conclusion was that some changes should be done in the framework to make it simpler to work with, like use static (pluggable) tabs, remove use of spring-javaconfig and etc.

"Many development teams are used to making heavy use of branches in version control. Distributed version control systems make this even more convenient. Thus one of the more controversial statements in Continuous Delivery is that you can’t do continuous integration and use branches. By definition, if you have code sitting on a branch, it isn’t integrated. One common case when it seems obvious to use branches in version control is when making a large-scale change to your application. However there is an alternative to using branches: a technique called branch by abstraction."