Jesse Glick

Comments in the above links suggest creation of an official convenience implementation of mirroring at some point.

Note that this will complicate infrastructure somewhat. https://github.com/jenkinsci/plugin-compat-tester/pull/249

> Would it be possible to just use the plugin module in those tests and ignore the other ones? Yes. But this means that PCT (as run from `bom`) will...

You forgot to use a [permalink](https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/blob/2f19ef0f8cd7aa96e6341120b93d5522f873eab6/core/src/main/java/jenkins/model/Jenkins.java#L4836) (`Y` button in GitHub).

Sounds like it would solve the issue (whatever that is exactly). This will have effect on more than just that, though. For example, people trying to test the effect of...

Rather than completely turning off caching, which makes interacting with Jenkins in `hpi:run` mode painfully slow, I would like to see Jenkins actually check file timestamps and invalidate its cache...

> returns groovy from target even if URLClassLoader contains `src/main/resources` first in list Sounds like it may be a bug in Stapler. Note that the order would not matter if...

Default behavior.

> Test result storage also has extensible data structure Yes but a very different structure. I do not think it would be productive to mix those.

Graduation criteria should include a (draft) JEP. See 202 for an example predecessor.