Hot on the heals of the Mingle 2.0 announcement, ThoughtWorks Studios has released information on the next generation of the world’s most popular Continuous Integration engine, CruiseControl, called Cruise.
It is a ground-up rewrite accomplished in around 8 months with an emphasis on catering to enterprise software development teams and large-scale applications. It combines sequential build pipelines (for, say, progressively more complicated or longer-running tests) with concurrent build tasks using a grid of agents.
The Cruise server can dispatch work to agents on ye olde CruiseControl servers. Although the Cruise product is not Open Source Software, the licensing terms are generous and in line with Mingle. Pricing is yet to be released.
With the usability innovations of cc.rb and the great foundation laid by CruiseControl and CruiseControl.NET we’re excited at the prospect of using the newest and best Continuous Integration tool on the market, from the company who changed the way developers integrate their software changes and who wrote the book on build pipelines.
