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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 19:47:06 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Why does Jenkins have a bad reputation around here? Why do you hate it?

   • Michele Adduci (madduci@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 20:24:38 JST Michele Adduci

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     @nixCraft a lot of functionalities are available only through plugins and these are sources of headache, especially due to CVEs and non trivial intra-dependencies, which might lead to break Jenkins itself sometimes .

     An important feature such as backup is not even there, you can only do that through plugins or copying the correct files (ugh) which is, for 2024, very bad

   • hansvschoot (hansvschoot@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 20:36:50 JST hansvschoot

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     @nixCraft anybody who hates Jenkins, gets upset about the wrong things in life :-)

   • Michael Kohne (mhkohne@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 21:04:20 JST Michael Kohne

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     @nixCraft I used it for a number of years at job[-1], and it was...fine. Clunky in a lot of ways, and too many things are in pre-installed plug-ins that would interact strangely. I think it's also had a bunch of security issues over the years that make people twitchy (I just kept my instance off the internet).

   • Psycodepath (psycodepath@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 21:44:56 JST Psycodepath

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     @nixCraft at a Former Job we had a Project, that deployed one project to 12 instances.

     We could not add an Environment because we got a Method size too large jvm Error.

     It was nothing crazy just running Tests, compile FS and rsync to those instances.

     Never had an issue with that on gitlab ci

   • Joseph Lamoree (jlamoree@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 22:33:41 JST Joseph Lamoree

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     @nixCraft I was not aware of it having a bad reputation. Perhaps you have bad friends.

   • Mike Seymour (mikeseymour@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Nov-2024 22:45:47 JST Mike Seymour

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     @nixCraft Like any tool, it can make life easier or harder depending on how it's used. At my last job, I set it up to do a simple job which it did very well. At this job, long-departed people tried to make it do all manner of complicated things. We depend on it for a lot of testing, but it keeps breaking and no-one really understands the detail of what it's doing or why.

   • London Eastfield 🇵🇸 (lawmanlungis@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 21-Nov-2024 15:03:22 JST London Eastfield 🇵🇸

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     @nixCraft Because: Java