Yes, I got aware of the change for Kohsuke shortly after this post.

I am also very aware of the quality of the community around Hudson. I am very proud to be the contributor the French translation, plus the author of the Fit plugin.

As I understand, you have some responsibility in overseeing the development of Hudson. Thank you for that.

You were asking about “Sun defining a clear strategy for Hudson”. Kohsuke used to work on Hudson only very part time but that changed very recently and Hudson is now his main responsibility, within a broader focus on Open Source Agile Development. It will be interesting to see how Hudson evolves now that he will have more time available to work on it.

Also, there is a fairly active community that has been writing many plug-ins for Hudson. The plug-in architecture is a key reason why Hudson is moving forward as quickly as it does.

However there is one point that you made that I think is wrong. CC is not where it is because Thoughtworks keeps putting money behind it. If you look at the entire history of CC you’ll see that the vast majority of work was done by the community outside of Thoughtworks. Their major contribution was visibility for the project via Martin Fowler’s CI article.

There was a time when Thoughtworks Studios was going to base their commercial product on CC, and during that period they were active committers to the project. However they have changed direction and are no longer (or at least are not currently) contributing to the CC code base from their work on Cruise.