• Icon: Improvement Improvement
    • Resolution: Fixed
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    • core
    • Platform: All, OS: Windows XP
    • 2.267 and 2.277.1

      When preparing a heavily used hudson instance for shutdown, there are always
      questions about the "why, how long and what does it mean?". I could easily
      explain it upfront, if i could enter a message when starting the shutdown
      preparation that gets shown additional to the current text.

      Think of it like the "reason for shutdown" textfield on windows servers.

          [JENKINS-1877] Explanatory message at prepare for shutdown

          dlindner created issue -

          dlindner added a comment -

          Direct enhancement to issue 109

          dlindner added a comment - Direct enhancement to issue 109
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          Link New: This issue depends on JENKINS-109 [ JENKINS-109 ]

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          Can anyone resolve this issue?

          Pei-Tang Huang added a comment - +1 Can anyone resolve this issue?
          Steffen Breitbach made changes -
          Link New: This issue is related to JENKINS-15822 [ JENKINS-15822 ]
          Steffen Breitbach made changes -
          Link New: This issue is duplicated by JENKINS-16012 [ JENKINS-16012 ]
          Steffen Breitbach made changes -
          Link New: This issue is duplicated by JENKINS-15269 [ JENKINS-15269 ]

          Linards L added a comment -

          I think this is irrevelant feature. For super-small teams - ok - you can do it, but from larger infrastructure/maintaice departments more important would be to allow some scripting assets as pre-shutdown events ... for example, to trigger backups and to perform some specific preparation ... or just connect JRockit instead of default JVM for debugging needs.

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          Linards L added a comment - I think this is irrevelant feature. For super-small teams - ok - you can do it, but from larger infrastructure/maintaice departments more important would be to allow some scripting assets as pre-shutdown events ... for example, to trigger backups and to perform some specific preparation ... or just connect JRockit instead of default JVM for debugging needs. -1
          Linards L made changes -
          Priority Original: Major [ 3 ] New: Minor [ 4 ]

          I somewhat disagree.

          In my opinion, the shutdown message is semantically incorrect. It says "Jenkins is going to shut down." when really just the flag that prevents new jobs from being executed is set. If you un-set the flag, nothing will happen in terms of shutdown.

          Maybe you don't see any benefit in a shutdown message. If we don't get the ability to set one at least the message should be set.

          I use the shutdown flag from time to time just to prevent Jenkins from doing anything while working on other tools (e.g. Sonar).

          Steffen Breitbach added a comment - I somewhat disagree. In my opinion, the shutdown message is semantically incorrect. It says "Jenkins is going to shut down." when really just the flag that prevents new jobs from being executed is set. If you un-set the flag, nothing will happen in terms of shutdown. Maybe you don't see any benefit in a shutdown message. If we don't get the ability to set one at least the message should be set. I use the shutdown flag from time to time just to prevent Jenkins from doing anything while working on other tools (e.g. Sonar).

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