On 24.03.2015, at 20:53, Kanstantsin Shautsou <kanstantsin....@gmail.com> wrote:

> Sorry, but rhel5 is not something that we should care about, AFAIR it on 
> extended support. You can still use ancient jenkins version and ask RHEL 
> support to do patches for jenkins. RHEL6 and RHEL7 were released long time 
> ago - update your infra.

The problem with the Java version used to run Jenkins is that it needs to be 
available on whatever box your builds run on.

It's nice if you're only building products using the latest hype technology, 
and discard them as soon as they're done, or upgrade the technology stack in 
every iteration, but there are *many* companies that still need to maintain 
products originally developed a decade or more ago, and the tools to build them 
are just as old, and wouldn't properly run on current systems.

And it's simply not possible to update Jenkins (master) in isolation, the 
remoting model requires that all slaves use similar JREs, and satisfy the 
minimum requirements.

> Ok, s/we/imho/ . Btw, there should be somewhere statistics. Let’s check how 
> many RHEL5 installation jenkins has. 

If you're referring to the anonymous usage statistics, we only know that 
they're running Linux, and the CPU architecture (os.name and os.arch).

And again, it's likely not the "installations" of Jenkins (i.e. master) that 
are the problem, but the build nodes.

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