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Pause weekly builds during end of year break?

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Mark Waite

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Dec 3, 2024, 8:22:43 AM12/3/24
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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?

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Daniel Beck

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Dec 3, 2024, 8:29:44 AM12/3/24
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On Tue, Dec 3, 2024 at 2:22 PM Mark Waite <mark.ea...@gmail.com> wrote:
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.

I see less of a problem with contributors using this opportunity for some programming, and more with limited availability of reviewers during this time. The number of regressions introduced in core, in particular from larger-scale changes, has increased substantially in the last few years and I don't think it has come back down completely yet.

Björn Pedersen

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Dec 4, 2024, 5:00:22 AM12/4/24
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+1 for pausing, the  changes are still visible in git for anyone really wanting  a superbleeding edge  version to play with.

 Björn

Stephane Merle

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Dec 17, 2024, 8:14:56 AM12/17/24
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I also vote for not publishing weekly during the 2 weeks periods to avoid any misunderstandings or mistakes.


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Mark Waite

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Dec 17, 2024, 6:53:59 PM12/17/24
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The infra team meeting this morning (Damien, Stephane, Bruno, Kevin, Mark, Stewi, and Oleg attending) agreed that it is best to not run the weekly builds while the infra team is out.  Damien will be our backup in case of emergency, but it seems better to not run the weekly builds as a way to reduce the need to disturb Damien.
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