I’ve done something simple, yet cool and useful in our Ant builds to make them work a little nicer with Hudson. I’ve modified things so our Jars/Wars get stamped with version control information from Hudson. To do this, I take advantage of the fact that when Hudson starts an Ant build, it puts certain key values in the environment variables, so I grab them and stuff them into the manifests for the jars.
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Andy Glover has written a post on using Gant with Hudson at his blog, The Disco Blog.
In case you didn’t know, Gant is a tool that uses Groovy scripts to invoke Ant tasks, so you write your builds as a Groovy script instead of an XML file, but you still get to use Ant’s power. I may just start playing with this…
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I recently set up StatSVN at my workplace. It’s a great tool for getting statistics from your Subversion repository - which in case you didn’t know, has a great deal of rich data regarding your team’s activity that can be extracted by analyzing source code activity. You can get very nice graphs of activity over time, check-in activity by author, churn (the amount of repeated check-in of the same files), proportion of adds versus updates, even things like which days of the week or hours of the day get the most repository activity.
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