The short version is that the developers voted to move the project's source code hosting to github after several infrastructure problems with java.net, includin

The short version is that the developers voted to move the project's source code hosting to github after several infrastructure problems with java.net, including unplanned downtime (there were some issues of the wrong groups notified for actual planned maintenance, etc). The team at Oracle clamped down on this and said no, you cannot do this, all decisions regarding infrastructure are to be made by us, and claimed that a (silent) majority of the larger "user community" was not in favor of moving to Github, although why these people did not speak up on the developer list or why casual users cared where the source code was hosted was never explained. After seeing how hard Oracle was to work with on simple things like hosting, the core developers voted to fork the project rather than live under a situation where Oracle could make threats because of their claim to own the trademark to the name Hudson. Longer version: http://jenkins-ci.org/content/whos-driving-thing http://jenkins-ci.org/content/whos-driving-thing and http://jenkins-ci.org/content/hudsons-future http://jenkins-ci.org/content/hudsons-future