A couple weeks ago in the post outlining the release of Hudson 1.347 I mentioned that Alan Harder (a.k.a. mindless) had undertaken a deprecation-crusade; that is to say Alan has taken it upon himself to rid Hudson’s code-base, particularly in the plugin area, of older code. One of Alan’s branches old-data-monitor was merged into trunk with r28147 bringing with it some changes to help...

One of my favorite bloggers on the subject of continuous integration, The Build Doctor, posed this question in a recent post: Continuous Integration in the cloud: good idea? The topic of running a CI server in a virtualized environment, such as with Amazon’s EC2 service, is an interesting issue, particularly in the Hudson community. About 10 months ago Kohsuke announced the Hudson EC2 plugin which has...