Hi all, After getting initial feedback in https://github.com/jenkinsci/.github/pull/14, I would like to follow-up in the developer mailing list to have a wider discussion.
*Problem*: we receive a lot of support requests in GitHub issues and Jenkins JIRA, but we do not provide support in common meaning in the community (no SLAs, no guaranteed response, and so on). We have some common templates for replying to such support requests, which vary from kind messages to "Jenkins JIRA is not a support site => Closed". It would be great to have a page which refers the "Jenkins support policy" and ideally to automate referencing. *Proposal*: Let's create an explicit "Support policy" somewhere. This policy could explicitly set expectations that we do not provide support with SLA, with all references to community channels (chats, mailing lists) where the users can get support. Implementation: - Add GitHub metadata for support: https://github.com/jenkinsci/.github/pull/14 covers GitHub by providing a default SUPPORT file. The page reference will pop up for new GitHub Issue dialog and help for components which have it enabled on GitHub (e.g. Docker images, JCasC plugin) - Put an explicit support page on jenkins.io. It might be accompanied with migrating https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/Commercial+Support to jenkins.io with better look and feel and stability - Modify https://wiki.jenkins.io/display/JENKINS/How+to+report+an+issue to reference the new support page in the header - Maybe: Add some chatops to IRCBot to automate responding with template and closing issues (for cases which do not really deserve spending time for a human response) WDYT? Feedback in the https://github.com/jenkinsci/.github/pull/14 wording would be also appreciated. It can be used as a response template for other resources in the future. Thanks in advance, Oleg -- 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/CAPfivLByKwHGv4XoQ%2BogzMepPfGk4gxkCUkKDUL0UXVPO0UJmA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
