The Goldfish Chronicles

#activemq nudged me towards their Bamboo installation. I’ve had a few peeks at Bamboo, but largely I’ve been trying to avoid turning to it because a) it’s new and surely not all there yet and b) I don’t want to start with the commercial offering. It’s fine for a company, and fine for an open source project, but when I want to run something individually or at a tiny company it becomes a pain in the arse to have locked myself into N-thousands.

However…. damn that looks nice. Curse you Mike and your tribe of shiny toy creators. I even hear it’ll handle my #2 feature request - multiple JVM support. Now for #1 - let me generate the configuration to an import script or a (well maintained!!!!) xmlrpc service and I’ll write you the import configuration bit.

I hear it has good Maven support [I presume maven2]. That’s an essential nowadays I think. And I also like that the reporting is focused on the build system and not on the source [checkstyle/pmd etc]. That’s something that a repository visualizer should be doing as a part of a greater CI system and not something the build-CI itself should be wasting time on.

So now… need to find time to play with Bamboo it seems so I can become even further dependent on Sydney.

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