Maybe some of you have used the
stable/jenkins helm chart to install our favorite CI tool in Kubernetes.
At the moment is it hosted in the
https://github.com/helm/charts repository, which is already in maintenance mode and all charts from there will be de-listed from the Helm Hub. And on Nov 13, 2020 the support for that repository will formally end, and the repo will be marked obsolete
Therefor chart maintainers are currently moving charts to different organizations.
I am one of the maintainers of the stable/jenkins chart and I am proposing to move it to
https://github.com/jenkinsci. I find that to be the most fitting place as most of the jenkins plugins also reside there. It could help to continue supporting it in the future.
Some data about the helm chart. Unfortunately, there seems to be no usage statistics to tell how many people are using it or how many downloads it has.
I checked its git history and noticed that it's first git commit is already from September 2016 and that it received over 300 contributions from 181 contributors since then. An older version of it is even used in
jenkins-x-platfrom.
How could a migration look like? Ideally, we could get a repository and admin permission on it so that we could set everything up. I've seen
https://www.jenkins.io/doc/developer/publishing/requesting-hosting/, but hosting a helm chart is a bit different than a Jenkins plugin. Also with the recent discussion about forked repositories in GitHub I am not sure if that's still the desired process or if it would be easier to just move a repository to the new org.
So far I prepared a git repository
https://github.com/torstenwalter/helm-charts which could either be moved or forked into the jenkinci org. It contains the whole history of the helm chart. It's using Apache License 2.0, as that was used by the original repository.
CI is set up using
chart-releaser and
chart-testing GitHub Actions.
Let me know what you think of it and if a move to jenkinci GitHub org would be ok.