Hi All, Infra would like to hand off the adding/deleting of various JDKs within our CI systems. This is mainly for Jenkins and Buildbot.
We provide for our projects many different versions of Java provided by many different vendors. Those include IBM, Oracle, OpenJDK and AdoptOpenJDK; and are installed on all our nodes/agents/runners on both Ubuntu and Windows. We obtain and repackage all JDKs as deb packages or zips into our Bintray Org ready for being pulled in via our Puppet configurations. (We repackage so that we can install into custom paths on the OS.) We also have a couple of scripts for making the download,repackage and upload to Bintray almost 100% automated. The final steps are to then create a PR against our Github repository for approval and merging. Once merged, our Documentation must also be updated with the newer versions or deletion of old versions. Credentials for the Bintray API will be provided so the scripts can work. No access is needed to the nodes themselves. Access to Infra SVN where our scripts live will also be granted. Basically, you will be added to our infrastructure ldap group if you are not already there. Write access to INFRA cwiki where pages need updating will also be taken care of. Ideally, one or two people would be able to take on this role with the intention of doing it for an extended period of time. Im looking at least a year I guess, at which time the volunteers could either keep going with it or pass it on. Life happens; and so I wont hold anyone to a specific time, just nice to know it is being taken care of. The same scripts are also made for updating Apache Ant and Apache Maven as newer versions come out, so optionally the volunteer(s) could also take care of those. If you are interested, *please email me directly only*, let's not flood these mailing lists with replies, thank you. I'll pick one or two volunteers after a week or so. Thanks for reading this far, that could mean you are interested right! -- *Gavin McDonald* Systems Administrator ASF Infrastructure Team
