Readers to this blog know that I take every opportunity to talk about Hudson, one of the very best Continuous Integration tools. Well, I have another very good reason: you can contribute to it and make money, at least if you let yourself known before the end of June.

Sun has started what they call the GlassFish Awards Program. Under it, contributions to some projects are eligible to cash awards. One of these projects is Hudson, and what’s important is that not too many contributions have been made so far, so it is likely that yours could actually get money!

Many types of contributions are accepted: courseware, user-groups, plugins… as for me, I intend to submit the translation to French, as well as my Fit plugin — that is, if I can get moving before it is too late

It is not easy to say how much money can be made. It depends on the quality of the submission, but also on the number of submissions that are accepted. I guess it should be rather easy to make a few hundred US$ (of course, as Kirk Pepperdine says, that’s probably only a couple of euros ).

How wrong I was when I said that Sun was not founding Hudson much!

The French translation of Hudson is a contribution I have made to the project. The work is complete for the core part of Hudson, and I consider it stable, though many bits are not internationalized, hence appear in English.

What can you do if you want to help?

• visit the wiki page for the French translation: it provides the latest status of the effort
• report typos, alternative translations, anything that can enhance the current translation. Do this on the above-mentioned wiki page (an email will be sent to me automatically), or get in touch with me directly (via a comment to this post, for example)
• if you are a contributor to Hudson, join the internationalization effort
• translate the plugins; I have hardly worked on any plugin at all (except the Fit plugin, which I have written myself). This is the area that needs most work.
• demonstrate Hudson in French to your French-speaking colleagues! for this, simply change the preferred language in your browser to French
• spread the word about Hudson!

Generally, once committed, enhancements to Hudson are released within a couple of days. So anything you contribute will be quickly visible.

I am looking forward to hear from you! And many thanks for your time and efforts.

That’s what you get when you spend several days polishing a post. Unlike <a href=”http://ericlefevre.net/wordpress/2008/06/02/cruisecontrol-is-still-the-bigger-player-hudson-is-growing/”>what I suggested in my previous post from today</a>, Sun does seem to take action regarding Hudson. <a href=”http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/”>Kohsuke Kawaguchi</a>, <a href=”https://hudson.dev.java.net/”>Hudson</a> creator, has just been <a href=”http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2008/05/ill_be_spending.html”>promoted to working on Hudson full-time</a>. I’m jealous

Congratulations, Kohsuke! You deserve it.

Voici un article sur l’Intégration Continue avec Hudson.
L’article se veut plutôt complet sur les fonctionnalités proposées par cet outil vraiment intéressant !

The JavaPosse podcast #178 mentions that Hudson has reached version 1.200 in 2 years and a half. The hosts made jokes on the number of releases… well, by the time they aired on April 8th, Hudson had actually reached 1.205. And by the time I listened to the podcast on April 10th, we had reached 1.206. So there!

Notre collègue Romain Linsolas, consultant Java chez Valtech, vient de publier un article très complet sur Hudson, l’outil d’intégration continue qui monte!

Cet article servira de mise en bouche à ceux qui assisteront à sa présentation à XP Day Paris, “l’Intégration Continue avec Hudson”.

Valtech Training organise une formation sur les principes de l’usine logicielle et de l’intégration continue.

Au programme : Maven, CruiseControl, Hudson, Subversion, …

Plus de détails sur le site de Valtech Training.

On a project I’m involved in, we are programming both in Java and Python. The Java part has been written TDD-style, with Hudson as the CI tool from the beginning. I’ve tried to promote unit testing and CI for the Python part as well, but little progress has been made.

So I am pleased to see a very positive experience report on integrating Hudson with Python. Not only was the code packaged and unit tested, but reports were also shown for both quality metrics and tests. Very encouraging!