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I am happy to announce that EGit is not the only Eclipse project that had a successful Summer of Code this year. Just as the program is wrapping up, a first version of the new Mylyn Hudson connector has been uploaded to the Mylyn weekly incubator update site. I had the pleasure to mentor Markus Knittig who did a great job over the summer in getting the connector into its current state. While there is still quite a bit of work to do, I have already been using the connector on a daily basis to monitor builds.

The Hudson connector is based on the Mylyn Builds framework which provides common infrastructure for integrating build servers with Eclipse. Most importantly it provides a Builds view.

The view shows the status and health for subscribed jobs. Red indicates a failed build, yellow failed tests and green means a build was successful. The weather icons in the Summary column show how a build has been doing in recent history following the Hudson web interface.

One really neat feature is the decoration of the view icon which shows the overall status when the view is in fast-view mode. When auto refresh is enabled the decoration icon will show a black or red X once a builds fails very similar to how the JUnit view indicates failed tests.

Subscribing to jobs, which are called plans in the Builds framework, is straight forward from the build server properties page which closely follows the settings page for Mylyn task repositories. All selected plans are shown and monitored in the Builds view.

If you feel brave and want try out the Hudson connector add the following P2 repositories to Eclipse 3.5 or later:

http://download.eclipse.org/mylyn/snapshots/weekly

Note that the connector is still work in progress, and it is likely that the data model will change in future versions possibly requiring re-configuration of servers. I recommend regularly checking the weekly Mylyn New & Noteworthy which will lists any significant enhancements or changes.

The Mylyn Bugzilla lists plenty of ideas how to move forward, but I would love to hear what features would be most valuable to you. Please feel free to file bugs against Mylyn Builds or chime in on the discussion on one of the existing feature requests.

About Steffen Pingel

Steffen Pingel is a Principal Software Engineer at Tasktop Technologies in beautiful Vancouver, BC. He enjoys working on tools that keep developers focused and productive and regularly speaks at conferences and user groups. He earned commit rights on the Eclipse Mylyn project in 2006 while completing his degree in Software Engineering at the University of Stuttgart. Since, he has become a member of the Eclipse Architecture Council and the Mylyn PMC and now leads several Mylyn sub-projects on Eclipse.org. Steffen is fascinated by the quality and extensibility of the Eclipse platform which keeps inspiring him to improve the Mylyn framework.

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