Open-source build management tool?

May 22, 2007 2:37 PM

Anyone know of a free, open-sourced build management/tracking web application?

I am looking for a tool that will do the basics: allow build request submissions from users, have those funneled by email, and allow a configuration manager to respond back, also funneled by email. The package should be customizable in that you can specify build fields (notes, etc) and if you could add hooks for actually running deployment scripts, all the better. Am I asking too much here?

posted by xmutex to computers & internet (4 comments total)

I haven't used it, but perhaps Mozilla's Tinderbox system would be useful?
posted by heresiarch at 5:20 PM on May 22, 2007

Oh, also, there seems to be some sort of 2.0 revision to it. Not sure what stage it's in.
posted by heresiarch at 5:20 PM on May 22, 2007

Hudson should let you do all of that. It's also just about the easiest open-source build management tool to configure I've seen. CruiseControl is good, too, and more robust, but not as easy to configure.
posted by cerebus19 at 5:46 PM on May 22, 2007

Seconding Hudson as a good choice. I wrote this article, Automated Builds Made Easy with Hudson, which shows how to get it up and running in five minutes.

More recent builds now also include an embedded servlet engine, so you can just run "java -jar hudson.war" from a shell and not have to set up or configure Tomcat/Resin/Jetty/etc.

Users can simply visit a Web page and click a link to request a build. There are also instructions on the Hudson site for integration with mail servers so that you could, for example, e-mail [e-mail] to trigger it that way. There are hooks for running deployment scripts in Ant, Windows/DOS and UNIX shell.
posted by tomwheeler at 6:17 AM on May 23, 2007