Defaults and (people not seeing a need to change) Shipping an ‘admin monitor’ encouraging people to update would probably make a difference
On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 17:18, Tim Jacomb <[email protected]> wrote: > It’s just down to defaults I think. > > We’ve seen the numbers rise as we changed the website and helm chart to > use Java 11 by default > > On Wed, 28 Apr 2021 at 17:08, Daniel Beck <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 1:42 AM Oleg Nenashev <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> I am in favor of making JDK11 the default in all our distributions, >>> including controller and agent Docker images. >>> At the same time I am afraid that removal of Java 1.8 support is >>> premature. The vast majority of Jenkins users still uses this version, and >>> the migration to Java 11 won't be seamless in al l cases. For example, >>> Maven Plugin will effectively switch project builds to Java 11 once the >>> agent images are updated. It will cause unexpected issues in user builds >>> here and there. Nothing should be critical, but we should not force users >>> to migrate immediately. >>> >>> IMHO there should be a grace period between Java 8 support deprecation >>> and the actual removal. Maybe 6 months or so. >>> >> >> Agree; I'd even be more conservative than just six months. We can and >> should update the default Docker images to run on JDK 11. But we shouldn't >> ignore that just ~0.3% of instances use Java 11, let's do something about >> that first. I wouldn't be surprised that there are still some problems to >> work out but we just have no users yet who would be affected. >> >> -- >> 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/CAMo7PtLW05CwT6JyDHHpq52V%2BZwcRy3hQxPW7O9U-D%3DR1adL7Q%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAMo7PtLW05CwT6JyDHHpq52V%2BZwcRy3hQxPW7O9U-D%3DR1adL7Q%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/CAH-3BicOSJ%2B%3DMhXxO2HRz4QL7O8tm5P56MJhJPsU13z3tTe0og%40mail.gmail.com.
