Hi Bill (et al) for those that are running nonstop or the like and have an update / test cycle in the order of 6 months :
I would recommend that your customers probably want to start the planning / validation to update to Java11 now even if this LTS version still runs on Java8. Java11 is going to happen at some point and I am not sure the project will be able to give you all the advance notice you need. Jenkins has supported Java11 for a while now, and if there are any specifics from you that cause it not to run we would like to be aware as early as possible (it won;t help you if we find out after the switch has been made and 7 days before a go live) > Most of your customers don't spend time reviewing this group. And many Enterprise decisionmakers don't participate in Twitter, which leaves the results of surveys in that platform somewhat questionable. On that note - where should we announce surveys / things like this - if users are not in the user email / discored or the like how can we reach people to inform them and have them participate? I also work for a company (CloudBees) that has Jenkins at its core for Enterprise customers, so we have the statistics from these installations as well - so this project is not blind of enterprises (and if a customer wants a version of Jenkins that is supported for 9 months rather than the normal 3 we can probably help you out, and there may be others) Regards /James On Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at 11:00:06 PM UTC+1 [email protected] wrote: > Mark, > > Randall had pointed me to this thread. I admit to only reading the last > couple of dozen posts and, based only on that, share my concerns. I should > have spent more time reading the thread, but I was scheduled to do a code > walkthrough with my customer and took the 'short' path, for which I > apologize. > > Your clarification does seem 100% the right thing to do, and I thank you > for sharing it. That's worth much more than .02$US! > > And my customers all never need know I ever had this concern, you had it > covered. :-) > > Bill > On Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at 3:49:40 PM UTC-5 Mark Waite wrote: > >> Thanks for sharing your insights. Great to have participation in the >> thread. Comments are inline >> >> On Wednesday, August 4, 2021 at 2:39:05 PM UTC-6 bhon wrote: >> >>> Similar to Randall (the.n...), I have customers that use NonStop, but >>> they also use various distros of Enterprise Linux. Their corporate >>> strategy for software development is to remain on Java 8 for the >>> foreseeable future, primarily due to the JDK 11 licensing mentioned >>> above. They have a corporate support contract with Oracle to continue to >>> get Java 8 updates, so support is not an issue for them. Shipping a >>> version of Jenkins that won't do 'remoting' on those target platforms >>> should require much longer than 5 months of advance notice, as those >>> customers are on much longer strategic cycles. >>> >>> >> I'm not sure where you're getting the idea that we would be shipping a >> version of Jenkins that won't do 'remoting' on those target platforms. The >> proposal does not remove Java 8 support. The proposal does not prevent >> users from running agents or controllers or both with Java 8. The proposal >> does not change how 'remoting' operates. >> >> >> >>> Even though the newer platforms and releases for NonStop include both >>> Java 8 and Java 11, customers on NonStop and Linux that are >>> Enterprise-focused (and there are MANY) haven't installed Java 11 and have >>> no plan to do so this year or probably even next. What was the >>> penetration number above for Java 11, only 4%? Expecting a large >>> percentage of your customer base to make this move is short-sighted. >>> >>> >> We're not expecting them to make a move. We're changing the default in >> the Jenkins Docker images so that users who choose to use the default >> Jenkins Docker images will use Java 11 instead of Java 8. Users that can't >> use Docker images (arm32, ppc64, s390x, ia64, riscv) can continue to use >> either Java 8 or Java 11 on their platform. After the change, users that >> are running Docker images can change the name of the image they are using >> and that will allow them to continue running with Java 8. Today, if they >> run with `docker run --rm -i -t jenkins/jenkins:lts` and they have a hard >> requirement for Java 8, they will need to run with `docker run --rm -i -t >> jenkins/jenkins:lts-jdk8`. >> >> If Jenkins is to retain its preferred position in Enterprise >>> environments, this decision should be very carefully reconsidered. Most of >>> your customers don't spend time reviewing this group. And many Enterprise >>> decisionmakers don't participate in Twitter, which leaves the results of >>> surveys in that platform somewhat questionable. This is not just a >>> question of what is easier for the developers of Jenkins, it's also a >>> matter of where Jenkins (and its remotes) run. >>> >>> >> We're not changing where Jenkins can run with this proposal. >> >> >>> This is just my .02$US, >>> >>> >> Thanks for sharing! >> 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/46cbc074-c917-4dd3-b94e-953c1f08441en%40googlegroups.com.
