Plugin idea. Using quotations in Jira comments

[Константин Валерьевич]

Hi!

I have an idea to create plugin to put quatations to comments what Jenkins adds in Jira tasks after build complete. There isn't such plugin in Jenkins repo.

Basic features i want to add:

• Create new build step what will extcract quote to jenkins variable. I will use it further on Jira steps.
• Step configuration should allow:
  • to select a csv file (language;quatation;author)
  • enter a language what will exctracted from file
  • enter probability value of quatation extraction.
• Optionally i want to add opportunity to use quatations from www.brainyquote.com or similar (with reusing some code from daily-quote plugin).

What do you think about this idea? That can you advise for newbie in plugin development?

Best regard,
Konstantin.

[Daniel Beck]

> On 22. Dec 2017, at 07:12, Константин Валерьевич <k.en...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> plugin to put quatations to comments what Jenkins adds in Jira tasks after build complete

Is this intended as a joke plugin (like Beer Plugin we have on ci.jenkins.io, or the Daily Quote you mentioned), or something you expect to be used productively? It's not quite clear to me -- Jenkins posting messages to Jira based for example on build result seems reasonable for the latter, but the rest of your email points to the former.

[Konstantin]

I want to use it productively. In our team results of build and code quality checks is posted in Jira comment on development task. I want to add to this comment citations on IT themes to motivate developers for quality improvements.

[Konstantin]

I'va started development with hello world plugin. Now i have some questions:

• where can i find a sample of  file selector for buildstep configuration? As far i understood, i need to add it into jelly configuration file. (I want to use standart file open dialog to select file)
  
• how should i work with Jenkins variable from Java code?