From: Verachten Bruno <gounthar@gmail.com>
Subject: Jenkins port architecture support enhancement: request for no-arch or expanded architecture support
To: ports@openbsd.org
Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2025 10:27:00 +0200

Hello OpenBSD Ports team,

I would like to request an enhancement to the Jenkins port (devel/jenkins)
regarding its architecture support.

Current Status:
  The Jenkins port is currently limited to three architectures: aarch64,
amd64, and i386.

Issue:
  As you know, Jenkins is a Java-based application that is fundamentally
architecture-independent. Since it runs on the Java Virtual Machine, there
is no technical reason to restrict it to specific hardware architectures.
OpenBSD supports many additional architectures, including armv7, powerpc64,
riscv64, and sparc64, and Jenkins should be able to run on all of them, as
long as we have a JDK17+ available.
The Jenkins project also supports s390x, for example.

Proposed Solution:
  I would like to suggest one of the following approaches:
  1. Mark the Jenkins port as architecture-independent (no-arch): This
would be the most appropriate solution, since Jenkins is pure Java
  2. Expand architecture support to include all OpenBSD-supported
architectures where Java is available

Rationale:
 - Jenkins is written entirely in Java and has no platform-specific
compiled components
 - The upstream Jenkins project supports any platform that can run Java
 - This change would benefit OpenBSD users on non-x86 platforms who want to
use Jenkins for CI/CD
 - It aligns with Jenkins' design philosophy of platform independence

Thank you for considering this enhancement. Please let me know if you need
any additional information.

Best regards,
--
Bruno Verachten