Delete now obsolete Jobs in Releng Jenkins

[HannesWell]

PR https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator/pull/657 made the following Jenkins jobs obsolete (for the mater, it was argued that they are a.t.m. needed for backports)

• https://ci.eclipse.org/releng/job/deploy-eclipse-platform-parent-pom/
• https://ci.eclipse.org/releng/job/deploy-eclipse-sdk-target-pom/

With https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt/pull/514 all jobs in the following view are obsolete

• https://ci.eclipse.org/releng/view/SWT%20Natives/

With https://github.com/eclipse-equinox/equinox/pull/603 all jobs in the following view are also obsolete:

• https://ci.eclipse.org/releng/view/Launcher/

On the long run those jobs should be deleted to not litter the Jenkins with abandoned jobs. The main question is when?

This at least serves as a reminder.

[HannesWell]

PR #657 is now over a year old and I wonder if we can now reconsider if the two deploy jobs for the parent-pom and sdk-target-pom can be deleted? @sravanlakkimsetti how for many releases/years back do you or your colleagues plan to do maintenance work? If you need the deployment for even older realeses one could backport the change on demand to deploy as part of those maintenance branch builds?

With eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.swt#514 all jobs in the following view are obsolete

* https://ci.eclipse.org/releng/view/SWT%20Natives/

Furthermore I wonder if we can now remove all these obsolete SWT-native jobs? Or are they used to back-port changes in the SWT natives if necessary, although I'm in doubt that this would work (but I haven't looked at these jobs in a while). @akurtakov you ran the SWT-Increment_if_needed about a month ago, do you think these jobs should be kept?

[akurtakov]

Cleaning up stale jobs is fine by me and people had enough time to react if these were really needed so please proceed with the cleanup.

[HannesWell]

@sravanlakkimsetti do you also want to comment on this one?

[HannesWell]

Now that https://github.com/eclipse-equinox/equinox/pull/603 has been submitted all jobs in the launcher group are obsolete as well: https://ci.eclipse.org/releng/view/Launcher/

Once the new Equinox pipeline has proofed to work well, I'll delete all manually created jobs of the launcher jobs, unless somebody objects. I think shortly after the next release, so in the beginning of the 4.33 cycle would be a good target for that.

[HannesWell]

Now that the SimRel for 2024-06 happened last week and I didn't become aware of any problem regarding the Equinox launcher binaries or (for longer) the SWT binaries, I think the grace period of the jobs intended to be deleted has passed.

If there are no objections by Friday this week, I'll continue to delete ALL JOBS in the following views plus the mentioned views themself:

• https://ci.eclipse.org/releng/view/SWT%20Natives/
• https://ci.eclipse.org/releng/view/Launcher/
  • For the record, since this job does not have a 1:1 mapping in any pipeline: Launcher-new-release just increments the min_ver field in the o.e.equinox.executable.feature/library/make_version.mak to the next plus 100. For example the current version in https://github.com/eclipse-equinox/equinox/blob/c8ce73659e087f2e5a4b0f79aa1caca6cf4d7126/features/org.eclipse.equinox.executable.feature/library/make_version.mak#L16 would become min_ver=2000 and would be committed to the equinox git repository by the Eclipse Releng Bot.

• https://ci.eclipse.org/releng/job/deploy-eclipse-platform-parent-pom/

• https://ci.eclipse.org/releng/job/deploy-eclipse-sdk-target-pom/

These jobs have already been deleted by somebody else.

[HannesWell]

• https://ci.eclipse.org/releng/job/deploy-eclipse-platform-parent-pom/
• https://ci.eclipse.org/releng/job/deploy-eclipse-sdk-target-pom/

These jobs have already been deleted by somebody else.

I have to correct this statement, these jobs just have been renamed. So the same applies. If there are no objects by Friday this week, I'll continue to delete the following jobs:

• https://ci.eclipse.org/releng/job/Releng/job/deployPlatformParentPom/
• https://ci.eclipse.org/releng/job/Releng/job/deploySdkPom/

And will remove them from the seed job via https://github.com/eclipse-platform/eclipse.platform.releng.aggregator/pull/2139.

[HannesWell]

All seven jobs in the SWT Natives view and the view itself are deleted. All eight jobs in the Launcher view and the view itself are deleted.

The jobs deploySdkPom and deployPlatformParentPom are deleted.

With that this issue is completed. Although there are probably more jobs that can be removed, but that's for another issue.