[GSoC2016] - Work Submission. Web UI Improvements. Samat Davletshin.

[Samat Davletshin]

GSOC Work Submission: Jenkins Web UI Improvements

The aim of the project is to improve Jenkins job creation pages and help management.

There are 2 parts to this project, the first is a collection of improvements to existing Jenkins behavior around creation of new jobs.

The second is a new plugin to allow help documentation for Jenkins to be edited in line.

Here is the initial proposal:  https://docs.google.com/document/d/122ZGtEZ9aJtkvaV5lsH_ea-Ao1pmM44LL1YnHwvW9l8

Here is the initial blog post:  https://jenkins.io/blog/2016/05/26/gsoc-jenkins-web-ui-project/

Pull requests to Jenkins Core

1. https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/2388 - New job popup

         https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-35333 - JIRA issue

           Current state: Unfinished.

Next steps: requires porting away from “remodal” library to an alternative popup library, but is accepted as a good idea.

2. https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/2416 - Responsive new job name validation

         https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-36084 - JIRA issue

Current state: this should be merged soon and has been accepted as a good improvement.

3. https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/2501 - New job creation UI change

Current state: this was viewed as an experiment but has been rejected as it is a disruptive change without a justifiable improvement to the user experience.

4. https://github.com/jenkinsci/jenkins/pull/2461 - Home page UI change proposal

Current state: This was a failed experiment, feedback was taken early and it has been decided to not proceed with this.

A new Jenkins plugin for editable help

5. https://github.com/jenkinsci/help-editor-plugin/ - Help editor plugin

         https://www.gliffy.com/go/publish/image/10922741/L.png - plugin design scheme

           Current state: Work in Progress. The plugin is fully functional, builds successfully, and passess all tests. However, there are still several comments on code improvements.

Next steps: this plugin needs to be hardened with better robustness around changing Jenkins UI, and test coverage under the acceptance test harness.

Additional code

6. https://github.com/samatdav/remodal-detached - Remodal detached NPM module.