On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 1:39 PM Basil Crow <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2021 at 11:20 PM Baptiste Mathus <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I think updating the minimum in Feb 2021 for weeklies and hence June for > LTS is a bit too aggressive. I think we should at least target the LTS > _after_ June. > > I fail to see any reason why a June target for LTS is too aggressive. > The migration is low-effort; users who are not consuming the Docker > image may trivially install OpenJDK 11 through their distribution's > package manager or by extracting an Eclipse Adoptium/Temurin archive. > Six months' notice is plenty of time for that, and those who are > unable or unwilling to do that are not likely to change their position > given additional time. > > I would prefer a September release so that we have time to adapt to the user interface improvements that will arrive in March, then deliver the June LTS with less dramatic changes, then use the September LTS to remove Java 8. I think there are changes that are as yet undiscovered on the removal of Java 8 support. I believe that finding and fixing those surprises will need more time. 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/CAO49JtGq%3DfVFZaFX1%2B9AGst3pv2FQoGFsQ3q7hv_9Tbei8-LMw%40mail.gmail.com.
