What is the most noticeable difference between Jenkins and Hudson from a user perspective?

Question

About 10 months passed when Jenkins broke away from Hudson.

When you browse the project’s home pages, I wonder what the differences are between Hudson and Jenkins at the same time. I haven’t learned much from the change log. There are many changes, and the main difference, apparently, is that Jenkins releases more often with fewer changes, and Hudson less often, but then with more changes in the release.

Are there any other noticeable differences? So, are there any things that make me, as a developer, need the CI system to be more productive than this or that? Is one of them more stable than the other? Is there any difference that has nothing to do with politics around Oracle?

What is the most noticeable difference from your point of view?

Answer 1

One noticeable difference is that a large number of plugins have moved to Jenkins. Although you can still use older versions with Hudson, newer versions will depend on Jenkins. Also, new plugins are mostly created with dependencies on fairly recent versions of Jenkins, so you probably won't be able to use them without the hassle of Hudson.

This will probably differ from plugin to plugin, some of them may be more compatible with Hudson than others, while others provide versions for both tools. But if something doesn’t work with the plugin, you will get help easier if you use Jenkins.

EDIT: Here is an interesting link that I found, not only providing some solid numbers on different paths that Jenkins and Hudson took, but also turned to the (un-) IP question that was mentioned here in another post ...

Answer 2

Verify the work that is done during code cleanup and IP checks that are required to participate in the Eclipse Foundation. This is one of the big differences if you care about a clean IP address.

How many plugins do you use? Hudson maintains many of the most important plugins on his own and works with plugin owners to maintain compatibility with those that are still supported by their owners in Jenkins.

See JavaOne presentations that show how Hudson is supported and new features added. https://oracleus.wingateweb.com/scheduler/eventcatalog/eventCatalogJavaOne.do (Hudson search)

Also check out the Hudson project at Eclipse http://www.eclipse.org/hudson/