Casual Fridays: Directing traffic with Hudson

R. Tyler Croy June 11, 2010

Intrepid Hudson user Christian Pelster posted a little project of his this week to the "users" mailing list called: hudsontrafficlights.

Christian describes the project as:

This Java based daemon aggregates the status of one or more jobs from a Hudson continuous integration server into a single status (red, yellow, green) and invokes a shell script on status change.

You can use hudsontrafficlights to control a USB traffic light (such as this USB Traffic Light from Cleware, GmbH) to give you and your colleagues nearly instant feedback on jobs in Hudson, without ever needing to leave your text editor!

image:https://hudsontrafficlights.googlecode.com/files/CIMG1635.JPG

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R. Tyler Croy

R. Tyler Croy has been part of the Jenkins project for the past seven years. While avoiding contributing any Java code, Tyler is involved in many of the other aspects of the project which keep it running, such as this website, infrastructure, governance, etc.