User Experience SIG - July 1, 2026

Contributing UX SIG
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2026-07-01T15:00:00Z

Jul 1, 2026

  • Attending
    • Mark Waite
    • Jan Faracik
    • Kris Stern
    • Tim Jacomb
    • Markus Winter
    • Rob
  • Experimental UI is available with feature flags in LTS
    • Update on experimental UI
      • Draft pull requests with new UI enabled by default - checking Jenkins core
        • Needed a few changes to tests
        • Still looking for an Oct 2026 date to enable by default in LTS
      • Security plugins need work
        • Role strategy and matrix auth plugin have pending pull requests for new UI
          • Tim’s implementation work (see PR), needs review
    • Completed work
      • Refine the System Log page in Manage Jenkins - PR (Jan Faracik) - in 2.571
    • Needs review
      • Sticky build bar, Independent scrolling side panel - Draft PR (Jan Faracik)
        • Refer to the recording for comments - ATH tests are failing until 2.568.1 release next week
        • Breaks with a custom header, needs more work
      • Add experimental agent page UI - PR (Markus Winter)
        • 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
      • Manage Jenkins page is largely done, not for the July LTS, likely for October 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
      • Matrix auth plugin has an open PR
      • Role strategy plugin has several open PRs (PR 749, PR 752, PR 758, PR 759, PR 760)
      • 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 - 44 open pull requests
    • Work completed (17 merged since June 3, 2026)
      • Refine notifications component - PR (Jan Faracik)
      • Fix animation artifact by when clicking apply - PR (Jan Faracik)
      • Fix breadcrumb overflow dropdown items failing to render - PR (Eunbin Son)
      • Fix missing event parameter in a keydown handler - PR (Rauneet Singh)
      • Fix disabled Add button after deletion - PR (Aarav Singh)
      • Standardise the command palette - PR (Jan Faracik)
      • Fix unexpected bluish scrollbar background - PR (Jan Faracik)
      • Fix experimental job app bar status icon - PR (Jan Faracik)
      • Fix combobox and autocomplete dropdown selection beyond the first item - PR (Adarsh Singh)
      • Fix agent connected message showing when temporarily offline - PR (Abdel Hamdy Ghanem)
      • fix: restore cancel button on build log page - PR (Adarsh Singh)
      • Refine the ‘System Log’ Manage Jenkins page - PR (Jan Faracik)
      • Fix build history tooltip clipping - PR (Yen Cheng Lin)
      • Fix chevron box misalignment on Build History view - PR (Yen Cheng Lin)
      • Allow to disable build history widget refresh in development mode - PR (Markus Winter)
      • Hide CSRF configuration UI when only DefaultCrumbIssuer is available - PR (Amogh Parmar)
    • Work in progress
      • Pull requests from frequent contributors
        • Refresh the status icons - PR (Markus Winter)
          • Agreed in the meeting that this is the right direction for Jenkins
          • Accepts that status of the previous build will no longer be displayed in the status icon
        • Add top button for “Add parameter” and other hetero-lists - PR (Markus Winter)
        • Limit dialog to 100% of visible area - PR (Zybnek Konecny)
      • 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
        • Allow viewing of gz compressed artifacts - PR (Brian Hinz)
        • Add abort support to FormChecker delayed checks - PR (Kevin Sailema)
        • 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)
        • System message rendering - PR (Karthik Bhandary)
      • Changes requested
        • Search filter has been implemented - PR (Lakshya Bagani)
        • Add lang attribute to all pages - PR (Somil Jain)
      • Unresolved merge conflicts
        • Add ARIA roles to Tippy dropdowns for screen reader support - PR (Muhammad Salman)
        • Add hook for clouds to provide additional entries into the sidepanel - PR (Sarika03)
  • Regressions and next LTS baseline (2.568)
    • Backported to 2.568.1
      • Job copy selection can’t click last item (issue 26860) (first in 2.552, backported to 2.568.1)
      • Deleting an element from a full list does not enable the “Add” button (issue 26737) (first in 2.536, backported to 2.568.1)
    • Not backported to 2.568.1
      • No longer possible to cancel build from the build log (issue 26635) (first in 2.541.1, not proposed to backport)
    • Open
      • “Scan repository now” does not display the green pop-up for GitHub Branch Source folder (issue 26849) - still open, needs review
      • Log output is incorrect when log lines delay arrival of newline character (issue 26739, PR 26871) - still open (first in 2.534, needs PR 520 in workflow API plugin)
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