I like the name change. I think I've seen both names lately, and I was confused which was what. Thanks for the clarification!
On Tue, Aug 14, 2018 at 5:04 PM R. Tyler Croy <[email protected]> wrote: > > I wanted to send an broader email to the dev list indicating that I will be > changing the name of what we have thus far referred to as "Jenkins > Essentials" > to "Evergreen." The latter has been the name of the distribution system > since > day one, and as we near completion on "Milestone 1", which will be useable > by > actual people, I wanted to fix the name to ensure that what "it" is, is > clear > and understandable. > > > Since the early days, "Essentials" has unfortunately been a bit of a > confusing > name for some folks. It tended to be related to the "Suggested Plugins" > feature > far more than I had ever wanted. The key aspect of it is _not_ the > selection of > plugins, but rather how those plugins get out there to users. > > > From my perspective, the always-automatically-up-to-date distribution > aspect of > what we've built, *that* is the key take-away. > > > Evergreen captures that promise _far_ better in my opinion. > > (with a nice hat-tip towards Green Balls and Blue Ocean's green status > indicator :)) > > > The four pillars remain the same, but the key premise of Evergreen is being > highlighted much more with this change. > > > From a practical standpoint, I will be submitting updates to the JEPs we > have > written thus far, add an update note to old blog posts, and post an blog > post > explaining what Jenkins Evergreen (nee Essentials) is and how to use it as > of > Milestone 1 (:clap:). > > > > > Let me know if you've got any questions, and of course, I look forward to > chatting with many of you about Evergreen at DevOps World - Jenkins World > San > Francisco coming up soon :D > > > Cheers > -R Tyler Croy > > -- > 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/20180814220448.GI17800%40grape.lasagna.io > . > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Matt Sicker Software Engineer, CloudBees -- 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/CAEot4oy-V0%2BxZQ-sQrTNpyTDvRK4c_QSf1cVtggsOOev1cXUhQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
