For those attending, I’ll see you in Paris.

If you can’t make it to this event, keep an eye on the CITCON website for 2010 events in North America, New Zealand/Australia and Europe.

This is the third annual CITCON event in Europe. London in 2006 and Brussels last year were both a blast. Everyone walked away having learned a lot about the cutting edge of CI and Testing.

So, you’re invited! Register at: http://citconf.com/amsterdam2008/register.php

And help us get the word out. Blog about it. Email your friends.

CITCON Brussels 2007 is approaching quickly…October 19 & 20. We are now seeking volunteers to help make this event a success!

We have positions open for all types of people. Please take a look at the volunteering page. You don’t have to be a software geek to help out and get all the cool volunteer benefits!

CITCON (Continuous Integration and Testing Conference) brings together people from every corner of the software development industry to discuss Continuous Integration and the type of Testing that goes along with it.

It’s an exhilarating conference. Be a part of it!

Sincerely,

Paul Julius

CITCON Organization Committee

The website is not up as of the writing of this post, but Scott Bellware provides the logistical details as:

“The ALT.NET conference will take place in Austin, TX from 5PM on Friday, Oct 5th, through noon on Sunday, October 7th at the St. Edwards University Professional Education Center.”

In a post by Dave Laribee, one of the conference hosts, he answers the question “What does it mean to be Alt.Net?” as:

1. You’re the type of developer who uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way.
2. You reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of any community: Open Source, Agile, Java, Ruby, etc.
3. You’re not content with the status quo. Things can always be better expressed, more elegant and simple, more mutable, higher quality, etc.
4. You know tools are great, but they only take you so far. It’s the principles and knowledge that really matter. The best tools are those that embed the knowledge and encourage the principles (e.g. Resharper.)

I am excited that the Open Space conference format is spreading in the software industry. The mission of the Open Information Foundation, founded by Jeffrey Fredrick and myself, is to help these types of events which endeavor to make the sharing of information available to anyone, without financial impediment. We have been hosting CITCON, around the globe, to further this goal.

If you can make it to Austin for this event, I am sure it will be a very educational, enlightening and fun event!

The CruiseControl Enterprise team, along with the crew of dedicated open source committers, have put in a lot of effort to stabilize the release. Please download the release candidate and try it out. If you have any issues or comments, please let us know on the CruiseControl-devel mailing list.

The changes in this release include:

CruiseControl Release Notes – 2.7.1

general
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* Upgraded Ant that is distributed with CruiseControl to Ant version 1.7.0.

cc-config
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* Fixed cc-config\3rdparty\libsystray4j.so causes build to break on Windows (CC-684). Patch by Brian Egge.
* Updated cruisecontrol’s main build to allow setting a proxy prior to downloading and including the cc-config application (CC-687). Patch by Ilkka Laukkanen.

contrib
======================

packager
———————-
* Fix build root and rpm destination for rpm target. Patch by Joseph Benavidez.
* Init script improvments based on patch by Nicolas Ternisien
* Upgrading a package will no longer overwrite users config
* Packages now depend on Java and subversion
* Package now includes dashboard and cc-config
* Now includes working connectfour sample
* Stops CruiseControl on uninstall
* Now only builds CruiseControl if needed
* .svn folder in connectfour.zip now points to correct sourceforge repository url(http://cruisecontrol.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/cruisecontrol/trunk/connectfour)

Documentation
======================
* Added docs for the Darcs scm plugin (CC-626).
* Fixed issue with logo appearing incorrectly placed in IE6. Patch by Jerome Lacoste.
* Add missing step in X10 publisher instructions. Patch by Bill Wohler.

dashboard
======================
NOTE: The dashboard has known display issues in Internet Explorer 6.
* Allowed artifacts to be kept in an arbitrary locations.
* Allowed config.xml to be kept in an arbitrary location
* Can render html/xml/txt in the browser.
* Can display the unit test output for passed builds.
* Enhanced the dashboard to display artifacts directories as tree structure.
* Added the cc-config (http://cc-config.sourceforge.net/) application so that it can be included in the dashboard (CC-658). Patch by Allan Wick.
* Allowed artifacts to be shown and downloaded in case of a failed build
* Allowed project name to contain hyphen (-)
* Allowed integration with project management tools
* Allowed using dashboard-config.xml to configure the dashboard
* Deprecated the way to configure the dashboard via web.xml
* Modificationset and Bootstrapping are no longer considered as building status in summary section.
* fixed unresolved velocity variable $build.build.duration in build detail page.
* Applied the patch of CC-436 which committed by Szczepan Faber
* Added error details in the dashboard (CC-665).
* Dashboard can now parse logfiles with testsuite elements without time attribute (CC-670). Patch by Ilkka Laukkanen.
* Dashboard can now parse logfiles with non-default date formats (CC-671). Patch by Ilkka Laukkanen.
* Fixed case where long project name would not wrap within Toolkit and Tooltip divs.
* Fixed layout problem with tabs when wrapping.
* Added Errors and Warnings tab. Removed Errors tab. Moved the test errors and test failures to Tests tab.

build loop
======================

AllFusion Harvest
———————-
* Added support for CA AllFusion Harvest via SDK (CC-513). Patch by Robert Thornburrow and Nayan Hajratwala. Removed previous command-line based support.

AntBuilder/Bootstrapper/Publisher
———————-
* Add ant propertyfile attribute (CC-664). Patch by Willem Verstraeten.
* Provide support for configuring additional Ant libs and listeners (CC-542). Patch by Dan Fabulich.

Builder Progress messages
———————-
* Add a Progress signaling api to the builders: <composite>, <maven>, <maven2>, <ant>, and CCDist <distributed> (CC-686).
Experimental impl for <ant> builder to showProgress can be disabled with showProgress=false.
Progess messages are shown on the reporting/jsp project pages, below the project state text.

build.sh/release.sh scripts
———————-
* Set JAVA_HOME properly on MacOSX (CC-681). Patch by Ingo Richter

CommandLine and Process exec handling
———————-
* Close process.outputStream to avoid deadlocks. (CC-527) Reported by Jason R. Hull

Compound Publisher
———————-
* Introduced a Compound Publisher (CC-656).

ConcurrentVersionsSystem/CVSBootstrapper
———————-
* Added the ability to set the cvs compression level (CC-579). Patch by Maxim Butov.

default-plugins
———————-
* Added darcs to the default plugins (CC-626).

Main
———————-
* Put the ccname command line parameter back, after being inadvertently removed (CC-651). Patch by Lars Gehrken.

MavenMapper
———————-
* MavenMapper extracts the email address for a certain committing user as configured in Mavens project.xml or pom.xml (M1 or M2) (CC-618). Contributed by Gisbert Amm.

Plugins
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* Introduce a “ControllerAware” interface for plugins (CC-680). Patch by committer emeritus Robert Watkins.

Project
———————-
* Added a property named “buildforced” that will get passed to builders for conditional control (CC-653). Patch by Dave Kilroy.

PropertiesMapper
———————-
* Refactored validation for cleanliness and removing duplication with ValidationHelper (CC-642). Patch by Gisbert Amm.

Schedule
———————-
* Added trap for zero or less interval and updated docs to indicate that they are not legitimate values (CC-652). Suggested by Jeff Jensen.

SVN/SVNBootstrapper
———————-
* svnrevision property set incorrectly (CC-683). Patch by Tim Brown and Brian Egge.
* svnbootstrapper documentation incorrectly lists “checkExternals” flag. Must be moved to the “svn” modificationset element (CC-678). Reported by Ram Singaram
* Improve error message when there is no valid localWorkingCopy for SVNBootstrapper (CC-679). Patch by Robert Watkins.
* Set svnrepository property so that it can be used by builders, etc (CC-639). Patch by Brian Egge.
* Prevent “premature” SVN modifications being detected (CC-677). Patch by Robert Watkins.

TFS/TFSBootstrapper
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* TFS Support – new sourcecontrol and bootstrapper plugins (CC-666). Patch by Martin Woodward.

TimeBuild
———————-
* Fixed problem when you set time build to 23:55 and the first modifcationcheck occur at 0:01 you won’t get an modification (CC-650). Patch by Lars Gehrken.

UCM
———————-
* Fixed ClearCase/UCM mode when rmver event found in history (CC-660). Patch by Paul Heaberlin.

Veto
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* Improvement to provide detail in log as to what changes caused the veto (CC-676). Patch by Barrett Nuzum.

Jeffrey Fredrick and I, on behalf of the Open Information Foundation, are pleased to announce CITCON Europe 2007 will be held in Brussels on October 19 & 20. CITCON is free to attend.

CITCON (Continuous Integration and Testing Conference) brings together people from every corner of the software development industry to discuss Continuous Integration and the type of Testing that goes along with it.

We just wrapped up CITCON Sydney at the end of July. Everyone really enjoyed themselves and learned a lot. It was the largest CITCON event, yet. We are hoping to make CITCON Brussels even larger.

If you would like to register for CITCON, please visit the website.
http://citconf.com/brussels2007/register.php

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me. We hope to see everyone at CITCON Brussels in October!

See http://www.citconf.com for more details.

CITCON is the Continuous Integration and Testing Conference that Jeffrey Fredrick and I co-chair. This year, the North American edition will be in Dallas/Ft. Worth.