User Experience SIG August 6, 2025

Contributing UX SIG
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2025-08-06T15:00:00Z

Aug 6, 2025

  • Attending

    • Mark Waite

    • Antoine Neveux

    • Judith Lopez-Rubio

    • Cristina Pizzagalli

    • Kevin Martens

  • Topics

    • Header and navigation redesign ongoing work - LTS 2.516.1 released

      • Positive comments on the navigation redesign

      • 2.516.2 discussion

        • Mark’s proposal is to delay the dropdown pull request for more testing

        • Other backports are being evaluated

        • Still hoping for a release candidate today or tomorrow

    • Active work in Jenkins core (16 with web-ui label)

      • Discussion topics

        • Making “Manage Jenkins” visible for users with read only permissions - Jan

          • Jan will prepare a community post to collect ideas opinions

      • PR’s merged

        • Replace ‘loading’ overlay with skeleton outline on Manage Jenkins - PR-10565

        • Remove pointer-events:none from dropdown menus - PR-10390

      • PR’s in review / discussion

        • Add badges to build page - PR-10651

        • Make tooltip placement configurable - PR-10609

        • Add top button for “Add Parameter” and other hetero-list components - PR-10432

        • Introduce icon for jobs - PR-9723

      • Draft PR’s

        • Revamp reorderable list component - PR-10186

        • Allow sorting installed plugins by more than enabled / disabled - PR-6967

      • PR’s with merge conflicts (6 labeled)

    • Announcing the header and navigation redesign work for the July 23, 2025 LTS release

      • Jan Faracik and Darin Pope livestream July 16, 2025

      • Jan blog post

      • Darin Pope and Mark Waite “What’s new in Jenkins LTS 2.516.x”

      • Add it to the “Jumbotron” (root page of jenkins.io)

    • Include more interesting data on weekly.ci.jenkins.io - help desk 4562

      • Infra team currently busy with moves to balance sponsorship use

      • Plan is to move weekly.to an isolated virtual machine that can be periodically reset