Suspend distribution of the windows-slaves-plugin #4221
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+1 from me. We should probably also suspend distribution of the one plugin that depends on it, the multi-slave config plugin. The multi-slave config plugin was last released 10 years ago, has been deprecated for over 2 years, and does not have an active maintainer. Why I think that suspension is the right approachWe suspend distribution of plugins that depend on a service that no longer exists or is end of life like:
This feels like a similar case to services that are end of life. Windows is not end of life, but the services required for this plugin have been end of life since at least March 2023. The plugin was deprecated almost two years ago. The plugin installation statistics show that there are still almost 80,000 installations of the plugin, but only 22% of those installations are on 2.426.3 or newer. Users with the plugin already installed will not be affected by distribution being suspended. Users with configuration as code definitions that include the plugin will need to remove it from their configuration as code definition. They will receive an error message when they attempt to download the plugin version. |
We suspend distribution of plugins that depend on a service that no longer exists or is end of life like: * jenkins-infra#732 * jenkins-infra#708 * jenkins-infra#676 * jenkins-infra#587 This is a similar case to services that are end of life. Windows is not end of life, but the services required for this plugin have been end of life since at least March 2023. The plugin was deprecated as noted in https://github.com/jenkinsci/windows-slaves-plugin?tab=readme-ov-file#notice-of-deprecation almost two years ago in November 2022. jenkinsci/windows-slaves-plugin@cdafd13 The plugin installation statistics https://stats.jenkins.io/pluginversions/windows-slaves.html show that there are still almost 80,000 installations of the plugin, but only 22% of those installations are on 2.426.3 or newer. Most installations of the plugin are not upgrading their Jenkins controller version. Users with the plugin already installed will not be affected by distribution being suspended. Users with configuration as code definitions that include the plugin will need to remove it from their configuration as code definition. They will receive an error message when they attempt to download the plugin version. Implied dependencies on the plugin were removed from Jenkins 2.386 * jenkinsci/jenkins#7568 The plugin was removed from the setup wizard in Jenkins 2.379 * jenkinsci/jenkins#7414 Fix jenkins-infra/helpdesk#4221
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We suspend distribution of plugins that depend on a service that no longer exists or is end of life like: * #732 * #708 * #676 * #587 This is a similar case to services that are end of life. Windows is not end of life, but the services required for this plugin have been end of life since at least March 2023. The plugin was deprecated as noted in https://github.com/jenkinsci/windows-slaves-plugin?tab=readme-ov-file#notice-of-deprecation almost two years ago in November 2022. jenkinsci/windows-slaves-plugin@cdafd13 The plugin installation statistics https://stats.jenkins.io/pluginversions/windows-slaves.html show that there are still almost 80,000 installations of the plugin, but only 22% of those installations are on 2.426.3 or newer. Most installations of the plugin are not upgrading their Jenkins controller version. Users with the plugin already installed will not be affected by distribution being suspended. Users with configuration as code definitions that include the plugin will need to remove it from their configuration as code definition. They will receive an error message when they attempt to download the plugin version. Implied dependencies on the plugin were removed from Jenkins 2.386 * jenkinsci/jenkins#7568 The plugin was removed from the setup wizard in Jenkins 2.379 * jenkinsci/jenkins#7414 Fix jenkins-infra/helpdesk#4221
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Distribution of the plugin has been suspended. |
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Update center
Summary
The plugin has not worked for a few years with any version of Windows that is secure.
As such I am proposing that the repo is archived and the plugin is suspended from the Update Center.
Reproduction steps
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