TeamCity
Wow.. It’s been a while since my last entry. So much for keeping a steady pace I guess..
Well, to the point. We have been having a lot of trouble with our CI-server lately. Continuum didn’t quite hold out in the long run. For a while it worked fine, but lately it has been crashing, builds have been hanging, notifiers have failed and all sorts of problems.
A friend of mine has been using atlassian’s Bamboo for a while he has been very happy with it. The downside is the pricetag, making it non-feasible for my current project.
Enters TeamCity. I had heard a lot of good about TeamCity and decided to take a look. The feature-list is almost as comprehensive as Bamboo and certainly seems to meet our needs (basically maven2 and subversion). The install went like a charm and I had my build up-and-running in about an hour-and-a-half. I only had some minor issues related to how to define my svn-directories correctly.
After about 8 hours of running, we have had 10 regular builds and I tried a couple nightly-style site:deploy cycles which also run just fine. The first impression of TC is just great and if nothing major occurs I would say I have a new favorite 
We are very glad your first impression about TeamCity is so positive
meaning all our effort and hard work are not in vain…
We have just released a 3.1.1 version, a maintenance release, though it has several performance fixes. So you might want to give it a try.
Please don’t hesitate to contact our team and express your opinion on our forum at http://www.intellij.net/forums/category.jspa?categoryID=23 . We are always ready to help and open for discussion.
The JetBrains TeamCity team
Cool and nice to know if I get troubles with CruiseControl.
I’ve heard a lot of talk about Hudson lately. Did you take a look at it before you decided to go for TeamCity?
Hudson is alright too, but it is kind of basic. I’d like to test the distributed features some day, but it’s way down on the todo list. I’d really like to see a server that checked for changes according to Mavens build order. That would eliminate a lot of false broken builds. I also like the ‘private build’ feature of Team City, and should test it some day.
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