Are there any download stats? If its barely used (and i suspect thats true), then +1 Otherwise, I'm sure one of the cloud mac providers would be up for donating a tiny bit of infra to build the package in exchange for advertising to jenkins users.
Gavin On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 9:26 AM Mark Waite <[email protected]> wrote: > This sounds like the right plan to me. +1 > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2019 at 9:02 AM Oleg Nenashev <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> As you probably know, there is ongoing work on automating Jenkins Core >> releases within the Jenkins infrastructure. Apart from Linux and Windows >> distributions, there is also a OS X installer which is being produced for >> each Weekly and LTS release in the current release environment (download >> link >> <https://jenkins.io/download/thank-you-downloading-osx-installer-stable/>). >> There are also a homebrew formula >> <https://formulae.brew.sh/formula/jenkins> being maintained by the >> HomeBrew community, these packages are even listed in our installation >> guide <https://jenkins.io/doc/book/installing/#macos>. >> >> In the new environment we use MS Azure, and there is no good way to >> produce OS X builds there, because they require MacOS. We could use an >> external service for that, but it would add additional point of failure and >> implementation/maintenance overhead. Since the HomeBrew is a defacto >> standard in MacOS, I do not think it worth the effort. What f we just stop >> shipping them? >> >> Implementation plan: >> >> - Deprecate in the next weekly releases >> - It requires a changelog entry in one of the next weekly >> releases + LTS upgrade guideline entry + likely a deprecation blogpost >> - Use HomeBrew as a recommended source of MacOS installers, mark it >> as a 3rd-party installer like we do for other downloads >> - >> - Remove MacOS native packaging from Jenkins release Pipelines once >> we fully switch to automated releases >> >> WDYT? >> >> Best regards, >> Oleg >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Jenkins Platform SIG" 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/jenkins-platform-sig/CAPfivLC_G-MGPH_GOiZkjba%2BcA4SbUpxpLFVj%3D0vC81Y48%2BufQ%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkins-platform-sig/CAPfivLC_G-MGPH_GOiZkjba%2BcA4SbUpxpLFVj%3D0vC81Y48%2BufQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > > > -- > Thanks! > Mark Waite > > -- > 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/CAO49JtFZt%3DOq3NCSD%2BwQGeKH6QkBBGaVBHZCwbFxvDTV751P_A%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAO49JtFZt%3DOq3NCSD%2BwQGeKH6QkBBGaVBHZCwbFxvDTV751P_A%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > -- 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/CAG%3D_DutpNoXBNV%3Dio0J345CsvzuPmTUdB5JpuHUngJni5BAFCw%40mail.gmail.com.
