hudson

I am referred to Hudson today. I have heard about continuous integration before, but I have no idea what the heck is a ci-server. Hudson is really easy to install in Ubuntu and in several minutes I managed to set up an instance of it. But I don't quite understand the workflow of a ci-server, or how am I supposed to use it? Please tell me if you have experience about ci, thanks in advance. Edit: I am currently using Mercurial as my SCM , and I wonder what is the right way to use it with Hudson . I have installed the Mercurial Plugin of Hudson , and I create a new job with a local repository.

I am using hudson CI to manage a straight java web project, using ant to build. I would like to mandate that the unit test coverage never be worse than the previous build, thereby making sure any new code is always tested, or at least the coverage is continually improving. Is there a hudson plugin that works this way? Edit: I am currently using Emma, but would be willing to switch to another coverage app. Also, as a clarification, I've seen the thresholds in some Hudson plugins, but that's not exactly what I'm after. For example what I'd like is that if coverage for Build #12 was 46% overall,

I'm trying to integrate Hudson into our development process, and everything is going smooth except for one thing. I had been using Phing to do deployments, and one of the things that was being triggered was an email to our tech support email address containing a list of all the commit messages between the last time code was deployed and the present SVN revision. I was doing something like this: read in a file from the root directory of the currently-deployed application that contains the SVN revision when the app was deployed place that value in a Phing variable insert that value into a

Is there a way to configure Hudson to only execute Build or Post Build actions if there are changes in SVN/CVS Thank you Instantsoup You can have Hudson poll the SCM for changes and only do things if it finds changes. Poll SCM: Configure Hudson to poll changes in SCM. Note that this is going to be an expensive operation for CVS, as every polling requires Hudson to scan the entire workspace and verify it with the server. Consider setting up a "push" trigger to avoid this overhead, as described in this document You can also add something to your SCM post-commit hooks that will fire off a Hudson

I'm just getting started with Jenkins CI, and had a question which I'm struggling to find answers for in the docs or online. Wonder if someone might be able to offer some advice? I'm attempting to use it to automatically deploy my dev and stage branches of my Django projects which are hosted on a Github organisation repository (ie, private). At the moment I have a user "django" who can access the Github repo via a Github deploy key. My Jenkins user can't access the repo. What's the best practice way of dealing with this - should I be creating an ssh deploy key for the "jenkins" user, or should