LURCH

History

Hudson and later Jenkins are two forks of a large scale continous build/integration framework. Written in Java and fairly monolithic I think they have a few flaws:

• performance is an issue for installation with hundreds of build jobs
• running plugin in the same Java engine means that updating plugins and main Jenkins driver independently is hard
• lack of workspace management means that a job that changes build node (slave) will not get a work space that is consistent with what was on the old build node.
• preferably the system should be able to handle restarts of the main controller without losing job data
• Javas memory management does not sit well with long running services

Goals for lurch

• get experience with programming a serious project in C++
• create a framework for a robust CI controller
• a constant footprint server ** No memory leaks ** No garbage collection