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Hudson’s Secret: Kohsuke

59 points by bensummers 16y ago

po 16y ago
Also, Kohsuke's blog is full of little gems and code snippets: http://kohsuke.org/ http://kohsuke.org/ http://www.java.net/blogs/kohsuke/ http://www.java.net/blogs/kohsuke/ A good example would be Akuma: his embeddable UNIX daemonization library that he wrote for hudson to use: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/01/writing_a_unix.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/01/writing...
100k 16y ago
Hudson is great. It's one of the few open source CI servers (that I know of) which can be configured without mucking about with reams of config files.
- mattm 16y ago
  I recently setup Hudson for the first time and was amazed that it just worked!
larryfreeman 16y ago
I worked with Eduardo (the author of the post) at Sun and I can tell you that when he says that Kohsuke is among the top 3-5 engineers that he has worked with, that REALLY says something. Eduardo was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun and as such, he worked with Sun's top engineers. He was also a senior technical member of the team that created JavaEE.
- Lewisham 16y ago
  Having met Kohsuke at various Hudson meetups, and worked with the Hudson code somewhat, I can definitely attest to him being the smartest coder I've interacted with. He's not just a productivity dynamo, but he's just a great coder. This was exemplified when I idly mentioned in the IRC channel "it would be pretty great if there was a way to unit test my plugin." About 10 minutes later, Kohsuke responds with "well, there is. There's a test harness I wrote." The test harness is a thing of beauty, spawning a headless, up-to-date version of Hudson that allows all sorts of querying about its operation. I'd never worked with something quite as amazing. Kohsuke == Hudson. Hudson without Kohsuke is essentially just an historial artifact. Oracle stands to lose much more from a potential fork than they realize. EDIT: The man also has the patience of a saint, which cannot be overstated when it comes to support.
julian37 16y ago
On a related note, here's an interesting article about Hudson's development infrastructure and Oracle's attempts to keep the project on java.net: http://www.hudson-labs.org/content/whos-driving-thing http://www.hudson-labs.org/content/whos-driving-thing
- w1ntermute 16y ago
  HN discussion from earlier this week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1954180 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1954180
  - julian37 16y ago
    Whoops! Must have missed that.
contol-m 16y ago
InfraDNA http://infradna.com/about http://infradna.com/about is the company Kohsuke founded to offer professional support for Hudson.
brown9-2 16y ago
Hudson is an amazing tool and Kohsuke deserves all the praise he gets.

59 points by bensummers 16y ago

po 16y ago

Also, Kohsuke's blog is full of little gems and code snippets: http://kohsuke.org/ http://kohsuke.org/ http://www.java.net/blogs/kohsuke/ http://www.java.net/blogs/kohsuke/ A good example would be Akuma: his embeddable UNIX daemonization library that he wrote for hudson to use: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/01/writing_a_unix.html http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/01/writing...

100k 16y ago

Hudson is great. It's one of the few open source CI servers (that I know of) which can be configured without mucking about with reams of config files.

mattm 16y ago
I recently setup Hudson for the first time and was amazed that it just worked!

larryfreeman 16y ago

I worked with Eduardo (the author of the post) at Sun and I can tell you that when he says that Kohsuke is among the top 3-5 engineers that he has worked with, that REALLY says something. Eduardo was a Distinguished Engineer at Sun and as such, he worked with Sun's top engineers. He was also a senior technical member of the team that created JavaEE.

Lewisham 16y ago
Having met Kohsuke at various Hudson meetups, and worked with the Hudson code somewhat, I can definitely attest to him being the smartest coder I've interacted with. He's not just a productivity dynamo, but he's just a great coder. This was exemplified when I idly mentioned in the IRC channel "it would be pretty great if there was a way to unit test my plugin." About 10 minutes later, Kohsuke responds with "well, there is. There's a test harness I wrote." The test harness is a thing of beauty, spawning a headless, up-to-date version of Hudson that allows all sorts of querying about its operation. I'd never worked with something quite as amazing. Kohsuke == Hudson. Hudson without Kohsuke is essentially just an historial artifact. Oracle stands to lose much more from a potential fork than they realize. EDIT: The man also has the patience of a saint, which cannot be overstated when it comes to support.

julian37 16y ago

On a related note, here's an interesting article about Hudson's development infrastructure and Oracle's attempts to keep the project on java.net: http://www.hudson-labs.org/content/whos-driving-thing http://www.hudson-labs.org/content/whos-driving-thing

w1ntermute 16y ago
HN discussion from earlier this week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1954180 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1954180
- julian37 16y ago
  Whoops! Must have missed that.

contol-m 16y ago

InfraDNA http://infradna.com/about http://infradna.com/about is the company Kohsuke founded to offer professional support for Hudson.

brown9-2 16y ago

Hudson is an amazing tool and Kohsuke deserves all the praise he gets.