Re: [VOTE] Bump Jenkins to Java 6

2012-09-07 Thread Mehul Sanghvi
On Fri, Sep 7, 2012 at 1:42 PM, Kohsuke Kawaguchi kkawagu...@cloudbees.com wrote: Yes, slaves are important. When the Jenkins core bumps up to require Java6, all the slaves will need to run Java6. You can still launch builds that builds with Java5 (just like you can today launch a build

Difficulty of converting an existing slave to a master ?

2012-04-27 Thread Mehul Sanghvi
We currently have a Jenkins slave server and were considering converting it to become a master server. How difficult is that process ? I have not done it before, and although I will be making backups, I just want to ensure that we do it properly and do not loose data. At the same time, I would