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Who's using Hudson?

Who's using Hudson?

From:
Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Date:
2010-07-09 @ 01:16
I occasionally get questions from people asking me about the adoption of 
Hudson. People appear to be using that information to make a pitch 
inside their organization as to why they should use Hudson. I recently 
noticed that someone asked the same question to @hudsonci in Twitter, too.

We can see public Hudson instances via Google, and we can also see the 
mailing list archives and use the domain names of the e-mail addresses 
to list those who are using Hudson. But since most Hudson runs inside 
firewall, those are just a tip of the iceberg.

So I'm thinking maybe we can ask our users to tell us where they are 
using Hudson, via HL, twitter, and the users list. If we explain why we 
are doing this, that it helps promote Hudson, then I think people would 
be willing to pitch in.

What do you think?

-- 
Kohsuke Kawaguchi | InfraDNA, Inc. | http://infradna.com/

Re: [hudson.infra] Who's using Hudson?

From:
R. Tyler Ballance
Date:
2010-07-09 @ 01:24
On Thu, 08 Jul 2010, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote:

> 
> I occasionally get questions from people asking me about the adoption of 
> Hudson. People appear to be using that information to make a pitch 
> inside their organization as to why they should use Hudson. I recently 
> noticed that someone asked the same question to @hudsonci in Twitter, too.

Indeed: http://twitter.com/dayfornight/status/17958884094

From talking with folks for the "Spotlight" segment I was running back when it
was called "Continuous Blog" there was a general sense of apprehension of
copping to a "public" Hudson instance, most people had serious concerns about
getting their slaves or Hudson box compromised.

I can write something up asking folks to send me their links to their Hudsons
on the public internet and create a "directory" on the HL site, but I'm not
sure if many of the larger organizations would be on board :(

Cheers,
-R. Tyler Ballance
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Re: [hudson.infra] Who's using Hudson?

From:
Alan Harder
Date:
2010-07-09 @ 05:11
Thoughts-
maybe a little form on or linked from some top level page, where people 
can provide some info.. what company, # of jobs and/or # of slaves, (did 
you switch from another CI product?) and a textarea to write nice things 
about hudson ;-)  With some explanatory text about why data is 
collected, how it will be used, etc.

btw, what about the Hudson feature sending in data?  you're thinking too 
many firewalled instances aren't able to reach out to send that data 
even if people wanted to?

    - Alan


R. Tyler Ballance wrote:
> On Thu, 08 Jul 2010, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote:
>
>   
>> I occasionally get questions from people asking me about the adoption of 
>> Hudson. People appear to be using that information to make a pitch 
>> inside their organization as to why they should use Hudson. I recently 
>> noticed that someone asked the same question to @hudsonci in Twitter, too.
>>     
>
> Indeed: http://twitter.com/dayfornight/status/17958884094
>
> >From talking with folks for the "Spotlight" segment I was running back when it
> was called "Continuous Blog" there was a general sense of apprehension of
> copping to a "public" Hudson instance, most people had serious concerns about
> getting their slaves or Hudson box compromised.
>
> I can write something up asking folks to send me their links to their Hudsons
> on the public internet and create a "directory" on the HL site, but I'm not
> sure if many of the larger organizations would be on board :(
>
> Cheers,
> -R. Tyler Ballance
> --------------------------------------
>   Jabber: rtyler@jabber.org
>   GitHub: http://github.com/rtyler
> Identica: http://identi.ca/dero
>  Twitter: http://twitter.com/agentdero
>     Blog: http://unethicalblogger.com
>
>   

Re: [hudson.infra] Who's using Hudson?

From:
Kohsuke Kawaguchi
Date:
2010-07-09 @ 05:31
I don't think it's necessary to link to their Hudson instances.
Similarly there's no need to create a directory of public instances
--- we can find public Hudson instances already all right, thanks to
Google.

My intention was just to be able to come up with a page that lists
names of users, so that our friends can point to that and say "see,
Hudson is used in all those places, so it must be good."

In that spirit, I like the idea of Alan to ask them to say something
nice if we can would be great, too (and if that refers to their
experience of switching from other tools, or if that refers to the
size of the deployment, that's great.)


Let me write an e-mail to the users list along that line, and maybe
Tyler can add some visibility to it through HL and Twitter.


2010/7/8 R. Tyler Ballance <tyler@monkeypox.org>:
>
> On Thu, 08 Jul 2010, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote:
>
>>
>> I occasionally get questions from people asking me about the adoption of
>> Hudson. People appear to be using that information to make a pitch
>> inside their organization as to why they should use Hudson. I recently
>> noticed that someone asked the same question to @hudsonci in Twitter, too.
>
> Indeed: http://twitter.com/dayfornight/status/17958884094
>
> >From talking with folks for the "Spotlight" segment I was running back when it
> was called "Continuous Blog" there was a general sense of apprehension of
> copping to a "public" Hudson instance, most people had serious concerns about
> getting their slaves or Hudson box compromised.
>
> I can write something up asking folks to send me their links to their Hudsons
> on the public internet and create a "directory" on the HL site, but I'm not
> sure if many of the larger organizations would be on board :(
>
> Cheers,
> -R. Tyler Ballance
> --------------------------------------
>  Jabber: rtyler@jabber.org
>  GitHub: http://github.com/rtyler
> Identica: http://identi.ca/dero
>  Twitter: http://twitter.com/agentdero
>    Blog: http://unethicalblogger.com
>
>



-- 
Kohsuke Kawaguchi