User Experience SIG - October 21, 2026

Contributing UX SIG
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2026-10-21T15:00:00Z

Oct 21, 2026

  • Attending

    • Mark Waite
    • Kris Stern
    • Ullrich Hafner
    • Stefan Spieker
    • Markus Winter
    • Sam Gleske

  • New Manage Jenkins UI is the default in Jenkins weekly 2.585

    • Will be in the next LTS baseline, Jan 6, 2027

  • Update on experimental UI

    • Improvements for review
      • Add experimental agent page UI - PR (Markus Winter)
        • Expected to pass ATH and plugin BOM both
        • Ready to go as far as Markus can tell
        • Once merged to weekly, anyone can enable with the experimental setting
    • Draft pull requests with new UI enabled by default - checking Jenkins core
    • Security plugins need work
      • Role strategy and matrix are working well with the new UI
      • Needs more review or closing the existing pull requests
        • Tim’s implementation work (pull requests 749, 752, 760, 765, 766), need review
    • Completed work
    • Needs review
      • Add experimental agent page UI - PR (Markus Winter)
        • Ready for acceptance test harness and plugin BOM tests
    • 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 SIG
      • Manage Jenkins page is merged, January 2027 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
      • Role strategy plugin has several open PRs (PR 749, PR 752, PR 758, PR 759, PR 760, PR 765, PR 766)
      • 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 - 66 open pull requests

    • Work completed (18 merged since September 23, 2026)
      • Multiple authors, including Jan Faracik, Zbynek Konecny, Markus Winter, Eunbin Son, Kanhaiya Mehta, and others
    • Work in progress
      • Pull requests from frequent contributors
        • Add top button for “Add parameter” and other hetero-lists - 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) - changes requested
      • Pull requests from new contributors
        • Introduce DirectoryBrowserSupportFilter extension point - PR (Brian Hinz)
        • Allow viewing of gz compressed artifacts - PR (Brian Hinz)
        • Reduce empty space in repeatable elements - PR (Rashmi)
        • Fix breadcrumb dropdown on smaller viewports - PR (Amogh Parmar)
        • Fix dropdown help icon layout - PR (Lakshya Bagani)
      • Changes requested - 10
        • Fix min/max form validation message to reflect inclusive boundary - PR (Eunbin Son)
        • Add badges to build page - PR (Daniel Krämer) - changes requested
      • Unresolved merge conflicts
        • Restore notifications for POST context menu actions - PR (Preetham Goud)
        • Fix search bar placeholder text from being selected - PR (Muhammad Salman)
        • Add icon size control to new dashboard page - PR (Ayush Singh)
        • Add ARIA roles to Tippy dropdowns for screen reader support - PR (Muhammad Salman)
        • Fix shutdown banner not displayed on new dashboard page - PR (Guna Palanivel)
        • Search filter has been implemented - PR (Lakshya Bagani)
        • System message rendering - PR (Karthik Bhandary)

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