Jenkins UI/UX hackfest - Updates and Ideas for contribution

[Oleg Nenashev]

Hi all,

Thanks a lot to everyone who has already contributed to the Jenkins project! We have delivered a number of important changes which will help Jenkins users, see the highlights below. So far we’ve got 39 participants who have reported their contributions to the UI/UX hackfest tracking repository. Full list of reported contributions can be found here.

If you have not contributed yet and would like to participate, there is still time to do it! If you are looking for hot issues within our project tracks, here are some hints:

• Newcomer-friendly issues:

• UI/UX issues in Jenkins components

• Jenkins Documentation on jenkins.io

• Documentation in Jenkins components: Jira, GitHub Issues

• UX Testing needed:

• Read-only Jenkins Configuration (HOWTO)

• UI Accessibility: Tables to Divs migration (HOWTO)

• Dark Theme (HOWTO)

• Reviews needed:

• Jenkins Documentation pull requests (see here)

• Plugin documentation  migration pull requests (query)

• Any other open pull request which improve UI/IX

• Spread The Word

• Report your Jenkins success story on https://jenkinsistheway.io/

More info and project ideas

• We have also had 7 training sessions for Jenkins users and contributors. They can help you to get started with particular topics. Recordings and Materials can be found here: https://github.com/jenkinsci/ui-ux-hackfest-2020/tree/master/presentations
• You can also find  more info and issue links on the Hackfest website: https://www.jenkins.io/events/online-hackfest/2020-uiux/

Hackfest highlights

• Preview release: Read-only Jenkins Configuration -  Announcement Blogpost. We have got a number of fixes and testing reports from participants, thanks all!

• Dark Theme PoC is available for evaluation and testing: jenkinsci/dark-theme. There were significant changes in the Jenkins core to make it possible and to simplify development of UI themes in the future

• Many UX improvements in the Jenkins core and plugins. Major ones:

• Improved management screens for the Credentials plugin

• Script Security: new Approval management UI: https://github.com/jenkinsci/script-security-plugin/pull/300

• Folder Authorization plugin UI revamp

• Credentials UI navigation improvements

• Documentation migration from Wiki: 40+ user documentation pages are migrated to jenkins.io, 16 plugins docs are migrated to Documentation-as-Code

Thanks to all contributors who helped these and many other changes to happen!

Best regards,

Hackfest org team

[Oleg Nenashev]

Also, join us for the demo sessions!

• Friday, 11AM UTC - Demo: GitHub Checks API Plugin prototype for Jenkins by Kezhi Xiong
  
• Friday, 3PM UTC - Jenkins UI/UX Hackfest. Demo Sessions by Hackfest participants. Current plan
• Félix Queiruga - Migrating Jenkins configuration layouts from tables to divs
• Tim Jacomb - Dark Theme for Jenkins
• Oleg Nenashev - Quickstart for System Read and Manage permissions, and the Dark Theme
• Mark Waite - Documentation migration highlights
• Vlad Silverman - Demo TBD
• Monday, TBA - Demo: Custom Jenkins Distribution build service prototype, by Sladyn Nunes
• Monday, 2PM UTC - UI/UX Hackfest Results - let's celebrate the hackfest achievements

Best regards,

Oleg