January 11, 2011
Kohsuke Kawaguchi renames Hudson to Jenkins
Kohsuke Kawaguchi led the HudsonAn early Java continuous-integration server — forked into Jenkins after a trademark dispute. community to rename the project Jenkins on January 11, 2011 — breaking from Oracle's trademark control after the SunSun Microsystems — maker of Java, Solaris, and SPARC; acquired by Oracle in 2010. acquisitionOne company buying another — a common path for tech giants to absorb products and talent..
What it was for
The HudsonAn early Java continuous-integration server — forked into Jenkins after a trademark dispute.→Jenkins fork preserved the world's most widely used CI server as community-governed software. Jenkins became the default build automationUsing machines or software to perform tasks with minimal human intervention. tool in JavaA portable language running on the JVM — dominant in enterprise servers, Android, and big data. shops and later across polyglot pipelines.
People
- Kohsuke Kawaguchi — maintainer
Why it's here
The Jenkins rename was a landmark open-source governance fight with Oracle.
Why it mattered
It kept continuous integration tooling under community control when trademark disputes threatened the project.
What it solved
Oracle's HudsonAn early Java continuous-integration server — forked into Jenkins after a trademark dispute. trademark claims put the project's name and infrastructure at corporate risk.
Media
- ImageKohsuke Kawaguchi
The Jenkins project (http://jenkins-ci.org/), CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Related
- Hudson CI first releasedFebruary 7, 2005