Added a new hudson.footerURL system property to tweak the link displayed at the bottom of the UI

changelog.html

@@ -71,6 +71,9 @@ Upcoming changes</a>
     (<a href="http://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-5577">issue 5577</a>)
   <li class=rfe>
     Making views more reusable outside the root object.
+  <li class=ref>
+    Added a new hudson.footerURL system property to tweak the link displayed at
+    the bottom of the UI
 </ul>
 </div><!--=TRUNK-END=-->
 

core/src/main/java/hudson/Functions.java

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
  * The MIT License
  * 
  * Copyright (c) 2004-2010, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Kohsuke Kawaguchi,
- * Yahoo! Inc., Stephen Connolly, Tom Huybrechts, Alan Harder, Romain Seguy
+ * Yahoo! Inc., Stephen Connolly, Tom Huybrechts, Alan Harder, Manufacture
+ * Francaise des Pneumatiques Michelin, Romain Seguy
  * 
  * Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
  * of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -108,6 +109,7 @@ import java.util.logging.LogManager;
 import java.util.logging.LogRecord;
 import java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter;
 import java.util.regex.Pattern;
+import org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils;
 
 /**
  * Utility functions used in views.
@@ -648,6 +650,20 @@ public class Functions {
         return buf.toString();
     }
 
+    /**
+     * Returns the link to be displayed in the footer of the UI.
+     */
+    public static String getFooterURL() {
+        if(footerURL == null) {
+            footerURL = System.getProperty("hudson.footerURL");
+            if(StringUtils.isBlank(footerURL)) {
+                footerURL = "http://jenkins-ci.org/";
+            }
+        }
+        return footerURL;
+    }
+    private static String footerURL = null;
+
     public static List<JobPropertyDescriptor> getJobPropertyDescriptors(Class<? extends Job> clazz) {
         return JobPropertyDescriptor.getPropertyDescriptors(clazz);
     }

core/src/main/resources/lib/layout/layout.jelly

@@ -2,7 +2,8 @@
 The MIT License
 
 Copyright (c) 2004-2010, Sun Microsystems, Inc., Kohsuke Kawaguchi,
-Daniel Dyer, Seiji Sogabe, Tom Huybrechts
+Daniel Dyer, Seiji Sogabe, Tom Huybrechts, Manufacture Francaise des Pneumatiques
+Michelin, Romain Seguy
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
@@ -259,7 +260,7 @@ THE SOFTWARE.
           ${%Page generated}:
           <i:formatDate value="${h.getCurrentTime()}" type="both" dateStyle="medium" timeStyle="medium"/>
         </span>
-        <a href="http://jenkins-ci.org/">Jenkins ver. ${h.version}</a>
+        <a href="${h.getFooterURL()}">Jenkins ver. ${h.version}</a>
       </td></tr>
     </table>
     <j:forEach var="pd" items="${h.pageDecorators}">