December 2010
[Ed. note Andrew was not involved in selecting this post's title - rtyler]
I wanted to give the Hudson community a quick update on the current status of the issues Tyler has discussed in the earlier posts here.
Friday afternoon, Kohsuke, CloudBees CEO Sacha Labourey and myself jumped on a conference call with Hudson contributor/Oracle employee Winston Prakash, Oracle manager Denis Tyrell and of course Ted Farrell.
We discussed a wide range of issues relating to the Hudson project, such as governance, the rights to the name Hudson, and the infrastructure hosting the Hudson project. While we didn't agree on resolutions to all issues, I feel real progress was made towards a framework that provides what the Hudson community needs while also preventing the sort of conflicts we've seen the last week or two.
More work has to be done - we'll be talking again next week, and I'm hoping we can reach agreement on the contentious issues by the end of the week.
Thanks for your patience.
Let me be the first to say thank you all for your overwhelming support for Hudson and the work we've been doing. The Hudson community in general has always been incredibly supportive and friendly, but the outpouring of support from friends and users who've not previously spoken up has been awe inspiring.
That said, let's get down to business. As I covered yesterday there is some bubbling frustration within the developer community regarding some project infrastructure decisions and Oracle's reactions to them. If you can't spare the time to read that novel of a blog post, the extremely shortened version is: devs want to move codebase to GitHub, Oracle disagrees and claims to have final say (hijinks ensue).
While there is still a lot unresolved, several of the core contributors are debating and weighing our options for moving forward in a way that best suits Hudson both as a project and community. In the next couple days, Kohsuke or Andrew will be proposing a course of action for the community after some of the options have been fully vetted. Please bear in mind that Hudson is a very big project with some fairly unique needs. We have hundreds of contributors committing either to core or the plugins, we release core once a week with plugin releases occurring to the tune of 20-40 updates a week. We've been pinging folks who work with various foundations and major open source projects to make sure we're covering all our bases to make sure distractions like this don't come up again for the foreseeable future.
Due to issues with MySQL, Java, OpenOffice/LibreOffice, there is clearly a lot of anti-Oracle emotion out there right now, but I want to make sure that it's clear that this is not about "Us versus Oracle."
Our goal isn't to "stick it to the man," that doesn't help make Hudson any better.
Our goal is to foster the kind of community that we all want to participate in, and to build and improve the best continuous integration server available.
Stay tuned :)
