[users at bb.net] BuildBot versus Jenkins

[Pierre Tardy]

Hi Greg,
Thanks for the fine answer. It is hard for us the devs/maintainers to
answer that kind of question, as we are a little bit biased.
This is nevertheless a very good summary of the pros and cons of the two
tools, and can only agree to all of that.

Pierre

Le mar. 2 févr. 2016 à 22:32, Greg MacDonald <gmacdonald at trionworlds.com> a
écrit :

> Hi Jeremy,
>
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> I have experience with both. Jenkins is more about providing canned
> plugins that offer specific workflows whereas Buildbot is more of a toolkit
> to build exactly what you need. With Jenkins you’ll spend a lot of time
> looking around for plugins that may or may not be a fit. If those plugins
> are buggy you’ll have to wait for a fix from the community or learn java
> and dig in anyway. On the up side for Jenkins there are tons of plugins.
>
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> Jenkins is easier to use initially but ultimately less powerful; BB is
> more complicated to learn up front but very powerful. For example, BB
> nine’s angular based UI plugin system is cutting edge and incredibly
> powerful, but you’ll have to learn angular. On the up side angular is a
> very popular and well-designed system worth learning. There is a lack of UI
> plugins with BB, but I’m hoping to see more community contributed plugins
> in py-pi after nine releases.
>
>
>
> Both are fine build systems, but in my opinion I think Jenkins is good for
> smaller projects that aren’t too complex. Since you have a sophisticated
> system I would tell your boss it’s not worth the effort to change. Jenkins
> is far from perfect. And buildbot is composed with industry standard
> technologies like python, nodejs, and angular. As well as solid libraries
> like twisted. It’s also one of the most well designed projects I’ve ever
> come across.
>
>
>
> -Greg
>
>
>
> *From:* users [mailto:users-bounces at buildbot.net] *On Behalf Of *Jeremy
> Cornett
> *Sent:* Sunday, January 31, 2016 2:00 PM
> *To:* users at buildbot.net
> *Subject:* [users at bb.net] BuildBot versus Jenkins
>
>
>
> I’ve been an administrator of my company’s automated build system for
> almost 4 years now, and for all of that time we’ve been using BuildBot. We
> have a rather sophisticated system, with a lot of added functionality, and
> I rather like BuildBot. My boss is wanting me to explore replacing our
> BuildBot instance with Jenkins, with the reasoning that Jenkins is more of
> an industry standard (more active development community) and it’s easier to
> use from a developer/tester perspective. I really don’t know if his
> reasoning is correct or not as I’ve never used Jenkins, but that aside, I
> was wondering if anyone else has faced this question, “BuildBot versus
> Jenkins,” and how did you answer it?
>
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