Path: csiph.com!2.us.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!1.eu.feeder.erje.net!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!storethat.news.telefonica.de!telefonica.de!news.panservice.it!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod From: Emmanuel Bourg Newsgroups: linux.debian.maint.java Subject: About Jenkins in Debian Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:10:02 +0100 Message-ID: X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-java-request@lists.debian.org Mon Jan 11 15:05:01 2016 Old-Return-Path: X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.448 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN=0.25, FREEMAIL_FROM=0.001, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.001, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-0.7] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -7 Dkim-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=sender:from:to:subject:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=T0031UmBxFYTd6qKEjY2BEGl/GSLW5zZDMSJGps0Jxo=; b=lT0TtIL8L+ALQuGWgQ+v0X/Vwt3W4GqI7tiRTW0RmfxcfHi3qgnYdsLHSwmpp4d+a2 eXyTSXFaeNEOzXwg6JmI4czGm82wWWKOjaiggGfCjBGUC5vJs+BD4wUV009yWQJPi+Po ET+ngU2oYgDxh/J0c8bY5MOmNfmV6dosayDMIY00RNrXJBUitwt4qHupsav/9IxPgidy D4eN4ZP1pgp40Y2kbo0iOhh3JfwGeFZJaUnRxqSL+Guim9xdYIg9IQU6aFAUOMrTOgWZ xyA6DKXwITp1KYvEsyZVXTaroBmckoB0akq2GNb1dviDIdGV7jmFOal14dI6OC/pHu1D bdmQ== X-Received: by 10.195.12.226 with SMTP id et2mr101063606wjd.34.1452524679461; Mon, 11 Jan 2016 07:04:39 -0800 (PST) Sender: robomod@news.nic.it X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/19028 List-ID: List-URL: List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/5693C485.3030905@apache.org Approved: robomod@news.nic.it Lines: 28 Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway X-Original-Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2016 16:04:37 +0100 X-Original-Message-ID: <5693C485.3030905@apache.org> X-Original-Sender: Emmanuel Bourg Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.maint.java:8708 Hi all, I'm pondering what we should do about Jenkins in Debian. For the reminder Jenkins development moves too fast and LTS releases are not supported long enough to make it suitable for Debian stable. Security fixes end up being almost impossible to backport properly. Moreover upstream already provides .deb packages so there is little incentive to duplicate this effort in Debian. We are also short on manpower to maintain the whole Jenkins ecosystem. At this point here are the options I think we could consider: 1. Provide updates for Debian stable through the backport repository. Unfortunately James Page the original maintainer gave up, I'd prefer focusing my energy on other applications not as well integrated with Debian yet, and nobody showed its interest in the Jenkins packaging lately. 2. Package a subset of Jenkins. We could keep only the jenkins-cli and jenkins-slave package as they provide a real added value over the upstream .deb package. This subset should be easier to maintain. 3. Remove Jenkins completely. What do you think? Emmanuel Bourg