He plans not only to describe and document Hudson, but also to provide a wealth of best practices and real-world tips enabling readers to get the most out of their Continuous Integration environment.
There is only one chapter till now, but it looks promising, so we should keep an eye on it, and maybe suggest some of the tips and best practice we have.
Here is a nice and simple solution for keeping the Hudson configuration in SVN.
I believe it's much better than just backup it since in SVN (or another version control) you are able to see the history and quickly revert the changes.
This article recaps a string of events where Oracle tries to prevent the hudson developers community from migrating the code base from java.net to github. One thing they claim is that although hudson is open source, they own the trademark to the hudson name
A bit of an interesting nugget is towards the end of the article it mentions: "closed-door meetings between Sonatype and Oracle regarding "how to make Hudson better""
Artifactory is definitely more than just Maven repository manager, the option of having build info together with deployed artifacts can be very useful.
Although there are differences between the open source version and the commercial version of Build Integration in Artifactory, we should consider Artifactory as a replacement for Nexus.
