Jenkins and Continous Integration (Interview)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

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

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