Re: Hello as a new user

Chris Polderman wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I've just discovered Hudson a couple of weeks ago and I must say: I am
> impressed; it is so easy to setup and manage! I dumped cruisecontrol
> 10 minutes after implementing hudson..

Cool.

> I initially started off using CVS but have successfully switched to
> Subversion now.
>
> Now for a quick question:
>
> I want to setup the build process to do an automated tag on the last
> stable build. I have a few options here:

Just to check, you want to tag every build? Or are you only keeping the 
tag on the last stable build?

> 1) use the ant script of the job to tag whenever a build completes successfully;
> 2) use the automated deployment (which is a downstream shellscript
> style job) to do the tagging.

... or write a plugin to do so.

> The main downside of option 2 is that the tag is placed a while after
> the build of the upstream job finishes; this can cause the tag to be
> placed on the wrong version on some files which have changed
> inbetween.
>
> Is option 1 the standard way to go?

I think it would be better if you write a Hudson plugin to do this. We 
can help you.


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Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Sun Microsystems                   kohsuke.kawaguchi@xxxxxxx

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