I plan to close the Doodle poll tomorrow. If you want to participate, please vote. https://doodle.com/poll/xrhpmsk9xpba2tfh
Best regards, Oleg On Monday, March 9, 2020 at 11:21:25 AM UTC+1, Oleg Nenashev wrote: > > Dear all, > > We had serious regressions in the 2.204.x LTS baseline starting from > 2.204.3 which was released on Feb 28 (changelog > <https://jenkins.io/changelog-stable/>). After that we had 2 out-of-order > releases over a week, with 3 major regressions reported by Jenkins LTS > users. These regressions were largely related to the embedded Jetty web > container updates in the LTS baseline. In 2.204.5 we also had to > reintroduce a defect in the LTS release, and it is also far from business > as usual. > > I have started a public retrospective document > <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NzR1XtkCfk6MDSD1jRq5H-iPSjqKvP-pfUO0b9lVZ9k/edit?usp=sharing> > > to restore the sequence of events and to discuss what we could do better in > the next releases. Anyone is welcome to comment in the doc and to make > suggestions there. If you are a Jenkins user affected by the issues, your > feedback will be much appreciated as well. Thanks in advance for your time! > > I also suggest organizing a recorded video call next week to discuss the > retrospective feedback. If you are interested to participate, please vote > for the meeting times here: https://doodle.com/poll/xrhpmsk9xpba2tfh > > Just to emphasize, the purpose of the retrospective is to improve our > processes and to ensure better quality of LTS and weekly releases. The > regressions were caused by numerous causes and they passed though all our > quality gates, there is no sense to put blame on any Jenkins team. There > are many contributors involved in the core maintenance, and we do our best > to provide stable releases, including weekends and burning the midnight > oil. Please refrain from putting a blame and let's focus on making Jenkins > releases more stable. > > P.S: We are always looking for more contributors > <https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md> and > reviewers/maintainers in the Jenkins core. If you are interested to > help with maintaining the kernel of the project with millions of developers > using it daily, please let us know! > > Best regards, > Oleg Nenashev > Jenkins Core Team > -- 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/d8c7d31f-4aa3-48a2-93a1-55a42307e92c%40googlegroups.com.
