I have not done a spotlight on Hudson in a while and there is a lot to mention, so this note is full of links:

• Goodies: New Eclipse Plugin, FindBugs, Start/Stop Scripts • Goodies, 2: Sventon, Python, Groovy • Adoption: New Chapter, testimonials in Spanish, French, Japan and elsewhere • Kind words: Hudson Rules! and This is good stuff. Check it out! • Kind words, 2: SDTimes Editor and Informal Poll • Getting Ready for SailFin: Blog, Live Report Page • Getting Ready for GlassFish v3: Port Allocator

And, if you want to show (off?) your support, go visit the CafePress Store

Similar to the User Experience Meetings conducted throughout the v2 development process, Anissa is scheduling a series of open-to-all brown bag series for GlassFish v3 builds. With the recent move to subversion (on our way to Mercurial), is it probably a good time for everyone still using CVS exclusively to get up to speed with the first meeting on October 30th 2007. Maven 2 is also a key component to GlassFish v3 and will be covered in the next meeting. Details (hours, conference call numbers, slides) are available here. Times are pretty US and Europe-friendly. Calls should be available for replay for everyone else.

Note for the non-US audience that "Brown Bag" refers to people bringing their own lunch (in a brown bag). Hopefully this explanation is not too far off as I'm not American either... ;)

We are taking a detour through SVN on the way from CVS to Hg. It is a combination of (lack of) maturity of the conversion tools from CVS to Hg, plus window of opportunity closing on us, plus constraints in some of our available infrastructure. This is a temporary detour but will let us continue with the modularization work needed for GlassFish v3. Check details in Jerome's Road to Hg writeup. Also see older TA posts.

I think those hairpins match this hybrid view from Google Maps. Also see Ask Results for more images.