Hey guys So I had a bit of a back and forth with Gav this morning, RE our builds and the sudden failures. One of the changes in a recent jenkins release made it so that remoting features require java 7. You can see their notes here: https://github.com/jenkinsci/remoting/blob/master/docs/remoting-3-compatibility.md
Because of this, there's only a few options we have. 1. Convert existing builds from maven projects into freestyle projects. Implement a maven step. 2. Don't use remoting. 3. Switch to Jenkinsfile syntax. Not using remoting would mean some changes in our build structures, which are really not long term. Converting gives us limited benefit. I'd like to go with #3 because of this issue, to give us the broadest range of support. I'm going to start with the minimal list that Mark put together as jobs to convert. We can add more as we see fit. Once I have a pipeline running, I'll check in that file and point to it. John
