Summary: last month I set up Hudson as our continuous integration server. And I constantly show Hudson’s front page on a laptop in a visible location, which increased interest and usage a lot!

Somewhere in February, after working here for a month, I set up a buildbot. I’m all in favour of some practical project automation. Having some machine automatically testing your code every time you make a change is one of the essentials. It also forces you to make your builds repeatable without any manual steps (so: buildout!), which is a good thing, too.

Problem: it did test everything pretty fine, but almost nobody looked at it.

I saw Hudson a couple of times already in some blog posts, but last May’s djangocon.eu in Berlin made sure I wanted to replace buildbot with Hudson, see for instance Eric Holscher’s talk.