Jenkins and Continous Integration (Changelog Interviews #48)

CI Joe is GitHub’s continuous integration server

Jenkins née Hudson is the leading open-source continuous integration server. Built with Java, it provides over 300 plugins to support building and testing virtually any project.

Kohsuke Kawaguchi is the creator of Jenkins

Andrew Bayer is a Build Engineer at Cloudera

Nearly 30K Jenkins installations worldwide

Jenkins is written in Java but with its rich plugin system, you can run almost anything with it

Jenkins supports Git, Mercurial, SVN, and even Visual SourceSafe

Jenkins does more than running tests, it can also do parameterized deploys

GitHub has fueled an explosion in Jenkins community growth

Wynn asks why Java is only 6% of GitHub projects

Funny cartoon on how language fanboys see one another

Git and GitHub adoption actually sparked the name change and Oracle split

The community voted 214-14 to rename

Andy addresses how plugins will migrate to the new name. Thanks, Matthew J McCullough.

At what point do projects look at a jQuery Foundation-style governance model?

Hudson was the butler in Upstairs, Downstairs

Alfred, the butler from Batman was a consideration, but conflicted with the Mac program

James Clark is Kohsuke’s programming hero

Kohsuke and Lisp’s Guy Steele are Andrew’s heroes

MZ Scheme now Racket makes Kenneth’s head hurt

Andrew recommends Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs from MIT

As a build guy, Selenium gets Andrew excited

Kohsuke is trying to hack the Airport Express to stream tunes from Linux