I am -1000 on this. The code does not pass tests on windows. Using java8 you force me to use a Virtual machine which sucks.
Using Windows subsystem for Linux gets you ubuntu 14.04 which does not have native support for JDK8. Basically please don't do this until you have a solution for Windows developers. On Friday, December 2, 2016 at 10:44:14 PM UTC, Baptiste Mathus wrote: > > thanks Oliver > > 2016-12-01 9:08 GMT+01:00 ogondza <[email protected] <javascript:>>: > > [...] > > >> - Month 0: Announce the intention publicly, with this plan attached. >> - Month 3: Drop support for Jenkins weekly. Declare what LTS will be the >> last one to support the think we are dropping. Since we gave people time to >> get prepared, we do not have to try hard to prolong the support in LTS >> branch. IOW, I see no reason to do whole new LTS line after the support was >> dropped for weeklies. >> - Month 3-5: LTS.1 with support dropped is released. >> > > That plan looks sensible to me. > > I guess we might want to take that decision to the next gov meeting to > make it acknowledged and official to get this plan going, isn't it? > > >> - Month 12?: In case of Java, encourage the use from plugins / use it as >> default. Extending the support in plugins allow people to consume plugin >> updates/fixes after upstream has dropped support without upgrading Java. >> This is especially subtle as IIRC plugin manager offers plugin updates >> (perhaps even core ones) that require newer Java version than the one >> installed on master, and there is no guarantee plugin that needs Java 8 >> require core with same requirement. >> > > IMO, this is definitely something we want to improve (as says Jesse with > embedding that in plugins metadata somehow), but IMO can be a disconnected > discussion. > > >> -- >> oliver >> >> > -- 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 [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/8af04ce6-1148-4233-8483-0bf32607565c%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
