Deprecating BranchPropertys which do not work with Pipeline

[jglick]

See jenkinsci/pipeline-plugin#209. These would be used only by https://plugins.jenkins.io/multi-branch-project-plugin/ (deprecated), https://github.com/jenkinsci/freestyle-multibranch-plugin (not on UC), https://github.com/jenkinsci/literate-plugin (ditto), or https://github.com/jenkinsci/yaml-project-plugin (ditto).

[jonesbusy]

I'm a bit confused with this deprecation.

I found some of my user jobs (created by JobDSL using such properties)

multibranchPipelineJob("job-name") {
    ....
    branchSources {
        branchSource {
            ...
            strategy {
                ...
                namedBranchesDifferent {
                    defaultProperties {
                        ...
                        buildRetention {
                            buildDiscarder {
                                logRotator {
                                    numToKeepStr("5")
                                    artifactNumToKeepStr("5")
                                    daysToKeepStr("-1")
                                    artifactDaysToKeepStr("-1")
                                }
                            }
                        }
                    }
                }
                ...
            }
        }
    }
    ...
}

Looking at the job configuration it seems to assign properties and works well (looking at the discard of build to 5. Changing the value on the UI and running a branch correctly cleanup build)

I'm probably missing something, but why such deprecation ?

[jglick]

Not sure about job-dsl plugin but this option should not be offered in the GUI.