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Kohsuke Kawaguchi
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Kohsuke Kawaguchi's personal blog at kohsuke.org covers programming and culture. Since 2010, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 12 times, most often “Core dev Kohsuke of Hudson welcomes Jenkins”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-27, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Kohsuke Kawaguchi's blog for his posts on Hudson and Jenkins, a Lego globe project, and code such as the Akuma daemonization library he wrote for Hudson.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Core dev Kohsuke of Hudson welcomes Jenkins2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-11
- Lego Earth project2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-13
- One last plea for Hudson/Jenkins vote2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-01-26
What Hacker News says?
Kohsuke's post: http://kohsuke.org/bye-bye-hudson-hello-jenkins/
Comment linking /bye-bye-hudson-hello-jenkins/
on “Hudson (OSS CI Server) to rename itself to escape Oracle's control”Submitted Groovy should have a clear governance structure as a story · 4 points
HN discussionHere is another one also from 2013 by Kohsuke of Jenkins/Hudson fame: http://kohsuke.org/2013/08/13/lego-earth-project/
Comment linking /2013/08/13/lego-earth-project/
on “Dirk's Lego Globe (2013)”Submitted One last plea for Hudson/Jenkins vote as a story · 4 points
HN discussionAlso, Kohsuke's blog is full of little gems and code snippets: http://kohsuke.org/ http://www.java.net/blogs/kohsuke/ A good example would be Akuma: his embeddable UNIX daemonization library that he wrote for hudson to use: http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kohsuke/archive/2009/01/writing...
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on “Hudson’s Secret: Kohsuke”Submitted One last plea for Hudson/Jenkins vote as a story · 3 points
HN discussionNot to mention apparently being complete dicks to Kohsuke Kawaguchi; who not only founded the project, was the primary contributor while at Sun, and remains the primary contributor since leaving; but also has a rep for being a very nice person. Apparently Oracle / some oracle VP Ted were big enough assholes that KK declined to work with them in any capacity in the future [1]. So yeah, Oracle continues making friends…
Comment linking /2011/01/26/one-last-plea-for-hudsonjenkins-vote
on “Hudson CI developers vote against Oracle control, "Hudson" name...”Submitted Lego Earth project as a story · 2 points
HN discussionYes, sorry for being too java-centric. This latest development from the last 24 hours confirms the strategy Oracle pursues for a few unfortunate OSS communities, Hudson in this case. There are good examples where Oracle has a great relationship with the community, this one just happens to be the opposite. Posting a mailing-list post is probably not a good source, agreed, yet it's the most recent. Maybe this post fro…
Comment linking /2011/01/24/on-oracle-proposal-about-hudson/
on “Oracle retains the Hudson name and IP, community considers fork/rename”Submitted Why I hate Zendesk as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Core dev Kohsuke of Hudson welcomes Jenkins as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Kohsuke Kawaguchi » The other side of forking and pull requests as a story · 1 points
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