How to use hudson to track a single metric

Question

We use the Hudson continuous integration engine to build and test our Python software Projects. This involves a Makefile which generates various output files like pylint reports and then various hudson plugins analyze and graph the output.

Im now looking for a way to track a single value with hudson without any specialized plugins. Be it coverage percentage or pylint sore or something els which can be written by the Makefile in a file.

Any suggestion on how to do that?

Answer 1

Hudson Plot can do that for you.

I believe the newest version supports having the data in a Java properties-file, in a CSV-file or in an XML-file (it used to only support properties-files).