Le samedi 24 mai 2014 14:51:47 Olivier Lamy a écrit : > Out of the trendy tendance to say this plugin is crap :-) > What is the real technical reason? yes, I don't know the Jenkins dev community well, but there seems to be some hard words on this topic
as a user, another way of seeing the case is: what gives Jenkins Maven Plugin that freestyle project doesn't provide? > I don't see any in the jira issue. > Why we don't try using LTS? > The current master is plenty of changes especially in the remoting library. the latest LTS isn't old: http://jenkins-ci.org/changelog-stable vs http://jenkins-ci.org/changelog perhaps this will remove some risks (real or supposed): while stabilizing, being a little bit conservative can help, IMHO > And revert back masters/slaves to java 1.7 ( I can do it Monday ). is there anything making you think that JDK 8 can cause some trouble? from time responses measure, the first improvements came when you said you upgraded everything to JDK8 but performance improvement isn't about stability: I have no proof of anything on stability Regards, Hervé > > Cheers > -- > Olivier > > On May 24, 2014 4:10 AM, "Andrew Bayer" <[email protected]> wrote: > > So I opened https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-23098 for this, > > and am currently putting together the support bundle mentioned in it. But > > it looks like there's a very real chance that the Maven plugin/job type is > > just so thoroughly crap at scale that we need to get rid of it and move > > all > > jobs to freestyle projects, using Maven build steps instead. > > > > If that turns out to be the only real option, it's going to be an ugly > > transition, given that we have over 600 Maven projects from many different > > projects, and there's no automatic way to transition those projects. I can > > probably come up with something that'll do a pretty decent approximation > > of > > that, but it wouldn't be perfect. We may want to consider tossing all the > > Maven jobs, removing the Maven plugin, and having the projects rebuild the > > jobs themselves. > > > > A.
