User Experience SIG - March 29, 2023

Contributing UX SIG
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2023-03-29T16:00:00Z

Mar 29, 2023

  • Attending

    • Mark Waite
    • Jan Faracik
    • Jake Leon
    • Tim Jacomb
    • Kevin Martens
    • Antoine Neveux
    • Sayantan Mondal
    • Adrien Lecharpentier
    • Cristina Pizzagalli
    • Ullrich Hafner

  • Topics

    • What’s happened recently in UI improvements - Jan Faracik
      • Alexander Brandes addressed several regressions
      • “Simplified settings name” open - link shared in chat
      • Feature flags (none implemented currently)
    • What’s coming in UI improvements
    • Work in progress:
      • card layout for mobile
      • Improve consistency of dropdown menus for repeatable list elements
    • User feedback
      • Feedback in the I’m disappointed post on community
        • Next steps: Uncertain, quite a bit of work, resources? For now, identify most pressing issues, create Jira ticket for highest priority item, include info/mockups/suggestions/label appropriately
        • Discuss on Gitter before creating ticket, draft pull request for early feedback
        • After discussions in Gitter, bring up in next meeting for follow-up
      • JENKINS-70394 resolved, major issue to control node status
    • Improve keyboard usability - Cristina Pizzagalli
    • Questions from Sayantan Mondal
      • Looking for guidance on where to start, feels overwhelming
      • Consider reviewing and testing existing pull requests, use that review and test to familiarize with development
      • Review existing issues and try to implement a fix for existing issues
      • Look at things that interest you
        • Ulli is interested in build results, changes interface of build results
        • If you’re interested in nodes and agents, look there to improve it
        • Took an old issue in the design library plugin, found many things that does not understand
        • Asked questions in the issue, where to
        • Post in the UX SIG on gitter chat (larger audience)
      • UX topics that can be helped
        • UX issues in Jira, “Good first issue” label in Jira
        • Consider working on keyboard usability
      • Dark theme plugin and assessing how plugins work with the dark theme
        • Review the behavior
    • Ulli questions about footer management and non-scrolling sidebar as is done for job configuration