2023-10-11T17:00:00Z
Oct 11, 2023
- Attending
- Mark Waite
- Tim Jacomb
- Ullrich Hafner
- Bruno Verachten
- Kevin Martens
- Wadeck Follonier
- Cristina Pizzagalli
- Daniel Beck
- Topics
- What’s happened recently in UI improvements
- Better delete dialogs for agents, clouds, users, views, log recorders
- Cloud management interface improvements ongoing
- Multiple clouds and VM templates are collapsed on their own page
- Easier to read, easier to manage, easier to locate
- Improvements are continuing
- Open pull request that allows reordering clouds on the page
- Current iteration does not indicate how users would use it
- No drag handle, users drag the cloud icon
- Can we make it
- Mark to send the question
- Tim and Alex happy enough with it, shall we look at it?
- Looked at a few iterations and assumed to be a small group that will reorder the list
- Didn’t realize that order of clouds even mattered
- Current iteration does not indicate how users would use it
- Prototype.js removal released in weekly 2.426 (Oct 3, 2023)
- Thanks to so many people that have worked on it
- Basil highlighted the results on the blog post
- That 10 year old JavaScript is gone from Jenkins
- Removed the hijacks that blocked other JavaScript libraries
- Java 11 end of life administrative monitor in weekly 2.426 (Oct 3, 2023)
- Sep 2024 we will switch minimum required Java to Java 17
- Pace of changes has slowed on user experience improvements?
- Jan hasn’t had time recently, likewise for Tim
- General slowing
- Configuration as code and theme manager work recently
- New theme manager API to detect preferred themes and light/dark mode
- Pipeline plugin that provides in-page editor has been updated
- Prism API has been updated as well
- Light and dark themes are now available on non-core elements
- Design library has been adapted
- Pull request for replaceable log visualization, in review and in discussion
- Allow the console link to be changed
- Provides a full replacement of the console output, but the console URL continues to be available for direct navigation. Changes the link to be an API for the active console link. The animated build progress bar
- [JENKINS-71715] Allow plugins with alternate build log visualizations to handle console links from core and other plugins by jgreffe · Pull Request #8321 · jenkinsci/jenkins · GitHub
- Tim working to display configuration as code errors in the UI
- Don’t require the user read the logs and stack traces
- Needs further refinement, core change needed to augment the boot failure screen
- Jenkins 2023 board and officer elections have started
- Nominations for officers and board members accepted until Oct 27
- Voter registration continues until Nov 5
- Voting Nov 6 - Dec 1
- Results announced Dec 11
- Temporary expansion of the scope for the security audit requirement
- Regular reviews continuing, but no longer doing additional reviews
- What’s happened recently in UI improvements