User Experience SIG - May 13, 2026

Contributing UX SIG
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2026-05-13T16:00:00Z

May 13, 2026

  • Attending
    • Mark Waite
    • Jan Faracik
    • Adrien Lecharpentier
    • Kris Stern
  • Experimental UI is available with feature flags in LTS
    • Demo of the builds page and jobs page using the App Bar API
      • Plugins maintainer don’t have anything to change except when using a custom task.jelly
    • Completed work
      • Refine dialogs PR released in Jenkins 2.559
      • AWS global configuration PR released in 159.v882a_ecd03fe6
      • Refine ‘Users’ page in Manage Jenkins PR released in 2.560
      • Experimental App Bar API for jobs PR released in 2.560
      • Warnings plugin changes PR released in 13.10084.va_8ffed9c57c6
    • Needs review
      • Refine the System Log page in Manage Jenkins - PR (Jan Faracik)
      • Add experimental agent page UI - PR (Markus Winter)
        • Still needs some discussion on how it integrates with Manage Jenkins
    • Work to be done
      • 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, 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
      • Role strategy plugin
      • 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 - 45 open pull requests
    • Work completed
      • Pull requests from frequent contributors
        • Use correct URLs from delete dialogs - PR (Markus Winter) in 2.559
      • Pull requests from new contributors
        • Prevent long parameter values from overflowing the dialog - PR (Adarsh Singh) in 2.563
    • Work in progress
      • Pull requests from frequent contributors
        • Refresh the status icons - PR (Markus Winter)
        • Allow to disable build history widget refresh in development mode - PR (Markus Winter)
        • Add top button for “Add parameter” and other hetero-lists - PR (Markus Winter)
        • Fix build history tooltip clipping - PR (Yen Cheng Lin)
        • Limit dialog to 100% of visible area - PR (Zybnek Konecny)
        • Allow build history widget updates to be disabled in development 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)
      • 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 plugin manager ‘Enabled’ column sorting - PR (Himanshu Kumar)
        • 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) - needs more review
      • Unresolved merge conflicts - none open
  • cdCon 2026 at Open Source Summit May 18-19
    • Mark Waite talk at cdCon - Jenkins Year in Review and Roadmap
      • Draft recording, slides, and text have been sent to Jenkins Board, Jenkins Officers, and several others
        • User experience highlighted
          • Pipeline graph view replaces Blue Ocean
          • New Manage Jenkins pages
          • New jobs and build pages
          • New dashboard
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