This was as overdramatic as I have learned to expect ever since the whole fork thing started.<p>Hudson cannot "lose" its plugins right now because there are no signifiant API/ABI changes between the two forks.<p>Also, I wonder how much these plugins are actually used? I've only installed mercurial on my servers and I'm pretty sure that will continue to be supported on any fork. As for the rest, as long as they are open-source they can always be forked too.<p>It's getting a bit tiresome to watch this unfold -- can't the new Jenkins community just go on with their life and make their fork as good as they can? They got what they wanted -- why the constant need to somehow prove something to Oracle?<p>Having such a big face-less enemy is the best thing that happened to this community as it gaves them something to bond against. I'm curios what will happen when the rush is gone.
Good stuff! Apparently even MS responds to inconvinient stuff entering HN front page. (<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archive/2011/02/15/a-modern-browser.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tims/archive/2011/02/15/a-modern-bro...</a>)<p>Now lets see how Oracle responds.