User Experience SIG - May 24, 2023

[MarkEWaite (Mark Waite)]

2023-05-24T15:00:00Z

Jenkins UX SIG Meeting May 24 2023

• Attending
  • Mark Waite
  • Cristina Pizzagalli
  • Alexander Brandes
  • Tim Jacomb
• Topics
  • What’s happened recently in UI improvements
    • Prototype.js removal has started - lots of work to do in small steps
      • Jenkins 2.406 removes Prototype.js references from core
        • Ships Prototype.js in core for plugins
      • Plugins tracking sheet shows progress with a row per plugin
      • Blog post shows contributors how to do the work
      • Many of the issues are small, well suited to new contributors
    • Removal of Prototype.js will allow data tables autosave
      • See Ullrich Hafner pull request to data tables
    • Allow use of JSON APIs without breaking due to Prototype
    • Next 3 months especially important for plugin fixes
  • Improve keyboard usability - Cristina Pizzagalli
    • See [JENKINS-71153] Unblock accessibility issues on Jenkins, and create a roadmap for addressing major known issues. - Jenkins Jira
    • Some pull requests are already in progress to address keyboard use
    • Cristina willing to create the individual issues in Jira to track the details
      • Individual issues are much easier to get specific help
      • Issues · jenkinsci/jenkins · GitHub is the label
  • Notifying users of operating system end of life - Mark Waite
    • Admin monitor will appear in 2.407
      • In the next LTS baseline after 2.401 (August 2023)
    • Will immediately display end of life messages for
      • CentOS 7
      • Ubuntu 18.04
      • Alpine 3.14