Platform SIG - Feb 11, 2022

[MarkEWaite (Mark Waite)]

2022-02-11T16:00:00Z

2022 02 11 Platform SIG

Participants

Mark Waite (@MarkEWaite), Damien Duportal (@dduportal ), Sahitya Gupta

Notes

• Open action items
  • Plugin installation manager docs - PR-4373 (closed)
    • Docs team agrees with Tim that a simple use case will be described on www.jenkins.io and detailed documentation will be kept in the GitHub repository of the tool
• Require Java 11 or newer for Jenkins core
  • JEP to Require Java 11 or newer
    • Vincent Latombe notes that users would benefit from an alert when their Docker image is no longer being maintained
  • Jira epic to track open items
  • Candidate issues need to be reviewed and processed
  • Java 11 epic issues need to be reviewed and processed
• Linux operating system support policy
  • Opened as PR-4823, discussion in developer mailing list
• Switching Linux packages from System V init to systemd JENKINS-41218
  • Pull request submitted by Basil Crow
    • Needs more testing (see the PR builds)
    • Needs more documentation (blogpost, upgrade guide for LTS, etc.)
  • Needs Jenkins core change first available in 2.333
    • Wait for June 2022 LTS (first LTS to include the core change)
    • Deliver in a weekly 4-6 weeks before June LTS?