Re: Hudson Is Cool.

Mark_Melvin@xxxxxxxx wrote:
> We are looking at using Hudson for our CI server.  I just wanted to say 
> that Hudson is very cool, but I also had an unimportant question.  Where 
> did Hudson get its name? ;o)

Thank you for the kind words, and for that question.

Where I work we have a group of engineers dedicated for building 
"official builds." They build your project every night and make it 
available, they keep the archives, etc. Over the time I got unhappy with 
this, because they only do it nightly, and our testing team only picks 
up those official builds. So there's always at least one day delay 
before I introduce a regression and testing catches it.

So I wanted to give this software a human-like name, to make a point 
that we don't need a real person to do this. A program can do it a lot 
better, actually. And I thought a butler-like name would be good because 
it's all about assisting others, and Hudson sounded like an excellent 
butler name. (I also considered Jeeves but that was taken by a search 
engine.)

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Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Sun Microsystems                   kohsuke.kawaguchi@xxxxxxx

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