John hudson and continuous integration

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We were thinking about a solution to keep up our google chatroom up even we all get disconnected. We were thinking about a bot when I remembered about a jabber plugin for hudson - actually, if we use a bot on the chatroom, why not hudson?

So we installed the plugin and after some configuration (make sure you configured it both in the global hudson configuration and in the project configuration, since it is not activated by default), we finally welcomed John Hudson as new colleague in our chatroom. This way we get informed of various events (build start, build failed,...fully configurable) directly in the chatroom.
And you know the best? We can even control hudson from jabber using simple commands such as !build myproject 
Simple and amazing. Continuous integration is great!