Use Jenkins. Jenkins is the recent fork by the core developers of Hudson. To understand why, you need to know the history of the project. It was originally open source and supported by Sun. Like much of what Sun did, it was fairly open, but there was a bit of benign neglect. The source, trackers, … Read more
Update 2019: These days, the question would be seen in a context using Git, and 10 years of using that distributed development workflow (collaborating mainly through GitHub) shows the general best practices: master is the branch ready to be deployed into production at any time: the next release, with a selected set of feature branches … Read more
Quickfix Solution: I had similar issue and I resolved it doing the following Navigate to jenkins > Manage jenkins > In-process Script Approval There was a pending command, which I had to approve. Alternative 1: Disable sandbox As this article explains in depth, groovy scripts are run in sandbox mode by default. This means that … Read more
I’ve been through buildbot, CruiseControl.net, CruiseControl and Hudson. All though I really liked CruiseControl*, it was just too much of a hassle with really complex dependency cases. buildbot is not easy to set up, but it’s got a nice aura (I just like python, that’s all). But hudson won over the former three because: It’s … Read more
This can be done via EnvInject plugin in the following way: Create an “Execute shell” build step that runs: echo AOEU=$(echo aoeu) > propsfile Create an Inject environment variables build step and set “Properties File Path” to propsfile. Note: This plugin is (mostly) not compatible with the Pipeline plugin.