User Experience SIG - August 19, 2026

Contributing UX SIG
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2026-08-19T15:00:00Z

Aug 19, 2026

  • Attending

    • Mark Waite
    • Kris Stern
    • Ullrich Hafner
    • Aarav Singh

  • Reverting the side panel pull request included in 2.577

  • JavaScript unit test framework (vitest “vee-test”) added in pull request 26595

  • Experimental UI is available with feature flags in LTS

    • Update on experimental UI
    • Completed work
      • Sticky build bar, Independent scrolling side panel - PR (Jan Faracik)
        • Breaks with a custom header, needs more work
        • Likely reverted due to multiple regressions reported by users
    • Needs review
      • Add experimental agent page UI - PR (Markus Winter)
        • Markus has been working on it recently
        • Still needs some discussion on how it integrates with Manage Jenkins
    • Work to be done
      • Jan has a local branch with many changes, he’s extracting pieces one at a time to pull requests
        • October LTS release should feel different after series of PRs are merged
      • Dashboard needs more work and discussion with users
        • Considering removing the “All” view - predict what you want to see
        • Show the builds interesting to you based on your history
          • Working well, home page shows several relevant jobs
          • Nice to demonstrate at the next UX
      • Manage Jenkins page is largely done, hope for January 2027 LTS
        • Some plugins with specific side panels need to be adapted
        • Administrative monitor with many warnings seems to load page slowly
          • Adrien will investigate further
        • Mark sees that some of his plugins need rework for the new Manage Jenkins page
          • Docker plugin (cloud agents from a Docker host)
          • Implied labels plugin (define labels based on combinations of other labels)
          • Core pages are good examples (About Jenkins, …)
      • Considering a single page for power options
        • Shutdown, …
        • Some pages require that knowing the URL (restart and safe restart)
      • Cloud stats plugin has an open draft PR
      • Role strategy plugin has several open PRs (PR 749, PR 752, PR 758, PR 759, PR 760, PR 765, PR 766)
      • New extensible builds list for the job page
      • New Jenkins.io homepage
    • Community forum post per page, comments encouraged there
    • GitHub jenkinsci/sig-ux is a collecting location for issues
      • More general topics in this issue tracker
      • Core specific and plugin specific issues should be tracked in the issues in their repository

  • Web UI work on Jenkins core - 48 open pull requests

    • Work completed (3 merged since July 29, 2026)
      • Make the side panel independently scrollable + make the build bar sticky - PR (Jan Faracik)
      • Add abort support to FormChecker delayed checks - PR (Kevin Sailema)
      • Fix hover area overlap for console and upstream hyperlinks - PR (Ketan Hegde)
    • Work in progress
      • Pull requests from frequent contributors
        • Add top button for “Add parameter” and other hetero-lists - PR (Markus Winter)
      • Older pull requests from frequent contributors with disagreements
        • Introduce icon for jobs - PR (Daniel Krämer)
        • Add badges to build page - PR (Daniel Krämer) - changes requested
      • Pull requests from new contributors
        • Introduce DirectoryBrowserSupportFilter extension point - PR (Brian Hinz)
        • Allow viewing of gz compressed artifacts - PR (Brian Hinz)
        • Reduce empty space in repeatable elements - PR (Rashmi)
        • Fix search bar text from being selected - PR (Muhammad Salman)
        • Fix breadcrumb dropdown on smaller viewports - PR (Amogh Parmar)
        • Fix card overflow for queue and build containers - PR (Heller07)
        • Fix dropdown help icon layout - PR (Lakshya Bagani)
        • Add ARIA roles to Tippy dropdowns for screen reader support - PR (Muhammad Salman)
      • Changes requested
        • Limit dialog to 100% of visible area - PR (Zybnek Konecny)
        • Fix min/max form validation message to reflect inclusive boundary - PR (Eunbin Son)
        • Restore notifications for POST context menu actions - PR (Preetham Goud)
        • Search filter has been implemented - PR (Lakshya Bagani)
        • Add lang attribute to all pages - PR (Somil Jain)
        • Add badges to build page - PR (Daniel Krämer) - changes requested
      • Unresolved merge conflicts
        • System message rendering - PR (Karthik Bhandary)
        • Fix shutdown banner not displayed on new dashboard page - PR (Guna Palanivel)