Changelog Interviews

Jenkins and Continous Integration

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Kenneth and Wynn caught up with Kohsuke Kawaguchi and Andrew Bayer from the Jenkins project to talk about continuous integration, Java, and corporate backing drama.

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Featuring:

  • Wynn Netherland – GitHub, X
  • Kenneth Reitz – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

  • CI Joe is GitHub’s continuous integration server
  • Knowing is half the battle
  • 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

    • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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