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 <timjaco...@gmail.com> 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 <db...@cloudbees.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Wed, Apr 28, 2021 at 1:42 AM Oleg Nenashev <o.v.nenas...@gmail.com> >> 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 jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> 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 jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CAH-3BicOSJ%2B%3DMhXxO2HRz4QL7O8tm5P56MJhJPsU13z3tTe0og%40mail.gmail.com.
