On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 4:03 AM 'Daniel Beck' via Jenkins Developers < [email protected]> wrote:
> […] do not show a rapid growth of Java 11 adoption > > Every time this topic comes up I need to remind people that while the proportion of installations currently running 8 vs. 11 is an interesting datum, it is not particularly useful for making a decision about when to drop support for 8. So long as you *can* run Jenkins on 8, and you were doing so before, and 8 is still receiving security fixes, and there is no particular functionality which is only available on 11 or even runs better in any way that I am aware of, why would you bother to even take five minutes to switch to a different Java version? What needs to be weighed is on the one hand the advantage to Jenkins *developers* in requiring 11 (as Tim describes); and on the other hand the proportion of Jenkins administrators who would *refuse* to upgrade Jenkins if it meant switching to 11 (for example because of some dumb enterprise policy, or because of lack of support for agents on exotic platforms). -- 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/CANfRfr1%3D2tCML%2BOYBgXmrmX2SD4_oxGDgL%2B7Fv_28S5hod9bHg%40mail.gmail.com.
