New stuff for Jenkins GUI

[Gus Reiber]

Hey all,

   This likely isn't a news flash for most of you, but the Jenkins GUI isn't great, but what might be news is that there is an active effort to make it a lot better. As part of that effort, I will be pushing out content, showing prototypes, concepts, and the occasional critique of the current GUI. The goal of this media push by me is to get you to holler back and help steer the effort towards actual improvements that matter to real users. 

Last JUC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIOD622KqlE

PS. I have a webinar tomorrow, so I am shamelessly hyping it: http://devops.com/2015/09/09/webinar-evolving-the-jenkins-ui/

Also, @gusreiber on Twitter, IRC and https://plus.google.com/+GusReiberUI/posts on Google+

[Maciej Jaros]

Gus Reiber (2015-09-23 20:26):

Hey all,

   This likely isn't a news flash for most of you, but the Jenkins GUI isn't great, but what might be news is that there is an active effort to make it a lot better. As part of that effort, I will be pushing out content, showing prototypes, concepts, and the occasional critique of the current GUI. The goal of this media push by me is to get you to holler back and help steer the effort towards actual improvements that matter to real users. 

Last JUC: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIOD622KqlE

I like the direction set in the presentation, but it would great if you could work more on the configuration page of jobs. You can see how important it is just browsing through all the plugins that attempt to fix problem of changing job configurations (e.g. Job DSL plugin).

For me it would help a lot if I would be able to collapse build steps. The more complicated the job is the more steps there are and it becomes harder and harder to change its flow. Smart collapsing would allow to easily glance through the configuration and add new step in the middle of the process. I've made a proof-of-concept of this smart collapsing and attached it to this issue:
https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-27484?filter=-2

Please have look and good luck :-). I know changing GUI of old software is always hard on many levels ;-).

Regards,
Nux.

[Gus Reiber]

Awesome Maciej,

    Yeah, a collapsible job config page is something I think is important and attainable in a reasonable time window. It was my hope it could have made the November LTS, but we didn't quite get there. I am excited to apply your script and have a look.

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[milki milk]

On Wednesday, October 7, 2015 at 8:04:01 AM UTC-7, Gus Reiber wrote:

Awesome Maciej,

    Yeah, a collapsible job config page is something I think is important and attainable in a reasonable time window. It was my hope it could have made the November LTS, but we didn't quite get there. I am excited to apply your script and have a look.

I don't like collapsible job configs if it means hiding even more information. I already have issues with all the 'Advanced' tabs from all the plugins. We have a lot of non-Jenkins-experts and more seasoned admins  that administer Jenkins jobs. And more often than not, jobs are misconfigured because they can't find options or don't realize there are default behaviours that were hidden under all these tabs.

I find myself looking at the documentation in Jenkins Job Builder and Jenkins Job DSL to find job/plugin configuration rather than trying to find out by clicking all the buttons and tabs to expand all the hidden options.

-milki