Hi,

 I got started with cruisecontrol back in late 2002, when I started working for dralasoft. I was the QA guy, the support guy, the sysadmin and the build guy there, for about 2.25 years. My first job was to convert the old makefile-based process into ANT, and then to apply cruisecontrol to that new architecture. That's when I got hooked into this community.

At the time, there were just a couple docs, one by Paul Julius that I used to get started, and another by John Julian. They both still live on this wiki in one form or the other. I felt like the docs didn't quite explain or flesh out how to get things set up from scratch, so I enged up pooling a lot of information from the user list, editing here and there, and stuffing it into the original Cruise Control Docs wiki that was provided to me by Ward Cunningham.

I can't say how much I appreciate Ward's help in getting things going. In hindsight, I was a bit of a bull in the china shop, since I solicited Ward on his own wiki page. In terms of wiki etiquette, this wasn't the most smooth of introductions, but hey, all the wikis I'd ever known were internal and I had no idea how big the wiki-verse really was.

A couple docs ended up getting added, testimonials and such, and I put together the first incarnation of the FAQ (not much to it but some basic troubleshooting guidelines), which I'm pleased to say still lives on in these wiki pages. I can't express how thankful I am for Jeffrey Frederick's help in establishing the wiki with more and better content, and also how much I appreciate Jason Yip's help in getting the wiki moved after the April 2004 mega-deletion of content. Since Ward was the original host of the wiki, I had no way of rolling the DB back, and the move to thoughtworks was Jason's idea. It's a great way to give cruisers control over the content, and I'm just totally amazed when I come back here to visit and find so much new stuff and new contributions. It feels great, and I'm honored to have a place in the Whos Who.

I'm currently the manager of the SCM group for Horizon Clinicals at McKesson Corporation. We build healthcare informatics software for hospitals, doctors offices and pharmacies, on AIX, HP-UX, Linux and Windows. The products built my my group account for hundreds of millions of dollars in annual revenue for the company. Given that McKesson's 2007 total revenue was 88 billion, it's a drop in the bucket, but it's the little drop I get to care for. Currently, I've got a dozen cruisecontrol projects running across a half-dozen branches, all on Linux. One day, I'll write a little more about it to share with the community. Thanks for visiting! -- R 05-16-07

Start a wave. See what happens. - R

Here's the link to my wiki page:

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?RandyNovick