There is an additional plugin which displays the version of the agent used (which is critical to manage too) https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/VersionColumn+Plugin I would have loved to have this in info by default and I agree that the java version could make sense too
On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Hickel, Kelly <kelly_hic...@bmc.com> wrote: > Any chance of getting a the manage nodes screen changed to include the > java version for that agent, in advance of forcing Java 8 in the weekly > builds? > > > > That would at least make it simpler for folks like myself to know the > scale of the upcoming impact. > > > > Thanks, > > Kelly Hickel > > > > *From:* jenkinsci-dev@googlegroups.com [mailto:jenkinsci-dev@ > googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Connolly > *Sent:* Saturday, October 29, 2016 8:37 AM > *To:* jenkinsci-dev@googlegroups.com > *Subject:* Re: [DISCUSS] Time for Jenkins to require Java 8 to run > > > > I think we should say "the first LTS of 2017 will require Java 8. End of > conversation" > > > > That will mean that weekly releases should switch to Java 8 by mid-end > November. > > > > 2017 it's a new year, it's a new Java version. > > > > We could look to solve some of the evil job type issues by *forking* > remoting into the evil plugin and using animal-sniffer to keep plugins > "pure" > > On Saturday 29 October 2016, Baptiste Mathus <m...@batmat.net> wrote: > > > > 2016-10-29 14:52 GMT+02:00 Arnaud Héritier <aherit...@gmail.com>: > > From my POV the problem is that we don't know if we are talking about 5% > or 50% :( > > > > Well, since yesterday, we do know some things > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__docs.google.com_spreadsheets_d_1-5FgsorbySktXNjMywDFZE0-5FeTm-5Fr2zfPKdmq7AqWO2uQ_edit-23gid-3D1770972416&d=CwMFaQ&c=UrUhmHsiTVT5qkaA4d_oSzcamb9hmamiCDMzBAEwC7E&r=q0qg2fxg744VhUMF4dROjIQOSbbOR7VYtDObJu4sCp4&m=0qiZX9e-5kHKgYJEFZ5rf6fvPU52wKPI4GGbSa-3jxY&s=W1IZz4vSXptupnNgzpADyRjK6WJRkGbIzo9x70Psw4E&e=> > . > > > > - Java 8 as runtime represents 52% of the 133505 instances out there > (yes, it's ignoring the opted-out ones) > - Maven-plugin is installed 118711 times (yes, ignoring on purpose the > fact it was auto-installed up to 2.x) > - So, *at most* it's 46% of the users base who *might *be impacted > here, if they were to upgrade in the very short term (that is: while also > still using an EoLed JDK7 durably). > > Now, looking at the trend of the number of installs of that plugin, my > guts feeling is that is less than that. And if you add that to the trend of > Java 7 JVM users (see link above), then it is most probably going down even > quicker. > > > > An example I have in mind is my previous company, pretty sure they didn't > upgrade to Jenkins 2.x yet, so they still contribute to that stats, but we > migrated off that plugins years ago after so many headaches and hours spent > to debug different behaviours between Maven CLI and using it in Jenkins. > > > > Correlating with http://stats.jenkins.io/plugin-installation-trend/ > jenkins-version-per-plugin-version.json > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__stats.jenkins.io_plugin-2Dinstallation-2Dtrend_jenkins-2Dversion-2Dper-2Dplugin-2Dversion.json&d=CwMFaQ&c=UrUhmHsiTVT5qkaA4d_oSzcamb9hmamiCDMzBAEwC7E&r=q0qg2fxg744VhUMF4dROjIQOSbbOR7VYtDObJu4sCp4&m=0qiZX9e-5kHKgYJEFZ5rf6fvPU52wKPI4GGbSa-3jxY&s=z-B86snAkHMRtpd-WygHS2c2d0Vh1OZbrKYlMQBFmE4&e=> > I think we would have even more data, but seems like that data is wrong. > > Gonna find the one who contributed that and hit him (I know him pretty > well). > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CANWgJS6LFO7K6hgzb1aB5bg%3DFcTFiDkXNJLArFZEJM8uaY3xfQ% > 40mail.gmail.com > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__groups.google.com_d_msgid_jenkinsci-2Ddev_CANWgJS6LFO7K6hgzb1aB5bg-253DFcTFiDkXNJLArFZEJM8uaY3xfQ-2540mail.gmail.com-3Futm-5Fmedium-3Demail-26utm-5Fsource-3Dfooter&d=CwMFaQ&c=UrUhmHsiTVT5qkaA4d_oSzcamb9hmamiCDMzBAEwC7E&r=q0qg2fxg744VhUMF4dROjIQOSbbOR7VYtDObJu4sCp4&m=0qiZX9e-5kHKgYJEFZ5rf6fvPU52wKPI4GGbSa-3jxY&s=k-KCgXrSRbklIfhlH_NB67tMDBku3wfphP9Ox4G8xRc&e=> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__groups.google.com_d_optout&d=CwMFaQ&c=UrUhmHsiTVT5qkaA4d_oSzcamb9hmamiCDMzBAEwC7E&r=q0qg2fxg744VhUMF4dROjIQOSbbOR7VYtDObJu4sCp4&m=0qiZX9e-5kHKgYJEFZ5rf6fvPU52wKPI4GGbSa-3jxY&s=rWof9ymAzv-_uMaiyiiLBN0U2NrlRTWpmasIXgx6Y1g&e=> > . > > > > -- > Sent from my phone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CA%2BnPnMyrp%2BYTyij2w8dqnHpaE% > 2B77MS10AWfv3pyBpYeE5Egotg%40mail.gmail.com > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__groups.google.com_d_msgid_jenkinsci-2Ddev_CA-252BnPnMyrp-252BYTyij2w8dqnHpaE-252B77MS10AWfv3pyBpYeE5Egotg-2540mail.gmail.com-3Futm-5Fmedium-3Demail-26utm-5Fsource-3Dfooter&d=CwMFaQ&c=UrUhmHsiTVT5qkaA4d_oSzcamb9hmamiCDMzBAEwC7E&r=q0qg2fxg744VhUMF4dROjIQOSbbOR7VYtDObJu4sCp4&m=0qiZX9e-5kHKgYJEFZ5rf6fvPU52wKPI4GGbSa-3jxY&s=uAOt4nwstLbU-b_-dVsEOBBtjEpOWRDTGaq89gUtPaA&e=> > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__groups.google.com_d_optout&d=CwMFaQ&c=UrUhmHsiTVT5qkaA4d_oSzcamb9hmamiCDMzBAEwC7E&r=q0qg2fxg744VhUMF4dROjIQOSbbOR7VYtDObJu4sCp4&m=0qiZX9e-5kHKgYJEFZ5rf6fvPU52wKPI4GGbSa-3jxY&s=rWof9ymAzv-_uMaiyiiLBN0U2NrlRTWpmasIXgx6Y1g&e=> > . > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/ > msgid/jenkinsci-dev/97e7456e1c854a828b7a2a2d1a94d7 > 9a%40hou-exmbprd-01.adprod.bmc.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/97e7456e1c854a828b7a2a2d1a94d79a%40hou-exmbprd-01.adprod.bmc.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- ----- Arnaud Héritier http://aheritier.net Mail/GTalk: aheritier AT gmail DOT com Twitter/Skype : aheritier -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. 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