RFC: Plumber - a declarative layer on top of Pipeline

[Andrew Bayer]

Hey all! 

So I've been working on this in skunkworks form for a while now, and now it's far enough along that I'd like to bring it to all of you for discussion/critiquing/nitpicking/etc. Conceptually, Plumber is a declarative layer on top of Pipeline, allowing you to specify phases of your pipeline without needing to explicitly specify things like SCM, notification, parallelization of phases, and more. For the moment, Plumber is in https://github.com/michaelneale/plumber, but it'll be moving to https://github.com/jenkinsci/plumber-plugin shortly. 

README has some more information - https://github.com/michaelneale/plumber/blob/master/README.md 

And the DESIGN.md has my design thoughts - https://github.com/michaelneale/plumber/blob/master/DESIGN.md

Any and all comments and questions would be greatly appreciated! The plugin *works* currently but is still just a start, so I'm open to discussion of pretty much any aspect of it. Thanks!

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[Andrew Bayer]

And it's in https://github.com/jenkinsci/plumber-plugin now. =)