Dear all, We had serious regressions in the 2.204.x LTS baseline starting from 2.204.3 which was released on Feb 28 (changelog <https://jenkins.io/changelog-stable/>). After that we had 2 out-of-order releases over a week, with 3 major regressions reported by Jenkins LTS users. These regressions were largely related to the embedded Jetty web container updates in the LTS baseline. In 2.204.5 we also had to reintroduce a defect in the LTS release, and it is also far from business as usual.
I have started a public retrospective document <https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NzR1XtkCfk6MDSD1jRq5H-iPSjqKvP-pfUO0b9lVZ9k/edit?usp=sharing> to restore the sequence of events and to discuss what we could do better in the next releases. Anyone is welcome to comment in the doc and to make suggestions there. If you are a Jenkins user affected by the issues, your feedback will be much appreciated as well. Thanks in advance for your time! I also suggest organizing a recorded video call next week to discuss the retrospective feedback. If you are interested to participate, please vote for the meeting times here: https://doodle.com/poll/xrhpmsk9xpba2tfh Just to emphasize, the purpose of the retrospective is to improve our processes and to ensure better quality of LTS and weekly releases. The regressions were caused by numerous causes and they passed though all our quality gates, there is no sense to put blame on any Jenkins team. There are many contributors involved in the core maintenance, and we do our best to provide stable releases, including weekends and burning the midnight oil. Please refrain from putting a blame and let's focus on making Jenkins releases more stable. P.S: We are always looking for more contributors <https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md> and reviewers/maintainers in the Jenkins core. If you are interested to help with maintaining the kernel of the project with millions of developers using it daily, please let us know! Best regards, Oleg Nenashev Jenkins Core Team -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/CAPfivLBRhsDsnkx0T-qgdV7awnrH1ss7j%2BBfFW_9mh_vrdkNdg%40mail.gmail.com.
