Since Eclipse Hudson instance is upgraded to 2.2.1, I thought it may
be worth to mention about a helpful feature we introduced in Hudson
2.2.0. This is a useful feature especially if you have several jobs
with similar configurations and maintaining them is a painful
process.
In Hudson 2.2.0, we introduced the concept called "Job Cascading or
Inheritance".
The concept of cascading Job is the ability to inherit job
properties from parent in a cascading fashion down the inheritance
tree. The main points of this feature are
- Any job of same type can be used as a parent job for
inheritance
- Cyclic inheritance is prohibited.
- All Job properties of a child job, by default, will be
inherited from Parent.
- User can override job properties by changing them on Child Job
Configuration Page.
- When overridden, property will be highlighted to show it is as
overridden.
- User will be allowed to revert the overriding property to that
of the parent property using a simple revert button at the left
hand side.
You can read more about this feature here
- Winston
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