Re: State of Jenkins in Debian
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On 10/03/14 21:58, Stephen Nelson wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 2:37 PM, James Page <james.page@ubuntu.com>
> wrote:
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>> Hi Team
>>
>> I'm writing here first before I file a formal RFH or O in the
>> hope that someone in the team might have the capacity to take up
>> the mantle of maintaining Jenkins in Debian.
>>
>
> Hi James,
>
> I hope that Jenkins can be kept in Debian, as I think it's an
> extremely useful piece of Java software that many developers
> interact with on a daily basis.
>
> I don't have the experience in packaging to take on the package
> myself but would be interested in assisting the effort if other
> more experienced members in the Java group would lead.
>
> With regards to the complexity of Kohsuke's mind, is the task made
> easier by the fact that the software is already packaged and
> therefore the most difficult task has been achieved, or are there
> difficult tasks added on every version bump?
The challenge is that between stable releases, jenkins changes alot;
so say we shipped the current stable release on release day - in +3
months time the codebase will have potentially changed so radically,
backporting security or critical bug fixes because very time
consuming; I've also found that sometimes this also required new
dependencies to be packaged.
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James Page
Ubuntu and Debian Developer
james.page@ubuntu.com
jamespage@debian.org
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