In past years, we've allowed Jenkins weekly builds to continue during the end of year break, but have accepted that the releases do not have the same level of oversight as we usually provide for a weekly release.
Damien Duportal, the Jenkins infrastructure officer, has suggested that we might want to stop the weekly builds during those two weeks rather than have them happen without the same level of oversight as we usually provide for a weekly release. His suggestions is that we would not build a Jenkins weekly release on 24 Dec 2024 or on 31 Dec 2024.
I'm open to either path. I don't think anyone has been harmed in past years by the limited oversight of weekly builds at the end of the year, but I'm also fine if we suspend the weekly builds during the two weeks at the end of the calendar year.
I see a disadvantage to disabling the builds if contributors to Jenkins core use the two week break at end of calendar year to make significant contributions to Jenkins core. We might have interesting changes that would not be visible to users until 7 Jan 2025.
Comments from others?
Mark Waite