New job name validation

Initially, job validation was unresponsive, job creation was still allowed with an invalid name, and some allowed characters even crashed Jenkins. Happily, two of this problems were fixed in recent improvements and I plan add only a real time name check for invalid characters.

Popup window

Jenkins has a lot of windows reloads that may time consuming. The creation of new job is a simple process requiring only job name and job type. This way UI may be improved by reducing page reloads and putting new job creation interface in a dialog window. Such popup would likely consist of three steps of implementation: rendering a dialog window, receiving JSON with job types, sending a POST request to create the job.

Changing help information

As reported by some users, it would be useful to have the functionality to change help information. Installation administrators would be able to change the help info and choose editing rights for other users. That would likely require a creation of extension points and a plugin using them. I also would like to include the ability to style the help information using markdown as shown above.

[Optional] The functionality is extended to creation of crowd sourced "wiki like" documentation

As in localization plugin the changes are gathered and applied beyond installation of a particular user.

More intuitive configuration page.

Pursuing to solve this issue

Although there are a lot improvements in new configuration page, there is always a room for improvements. An advanced job still has a very complicated and hard to read configuration page. It is still open to discussion, but I may approach it by better division of configuration parts such as an accordion based navigation.

[Optional] Removing "My Views" page

"My Views" page may unnecessary complicate essential sidepanel navigation. Since it contains very small functionality, the functions may be moved to the home page and the whole page may be removed. That may be implemented by adding icons to "My Views" tabs. Additionally, the standard view creation page can create either of the types

[Optional] Reducing number of UI elements

The home page may contain some UI elements that are not essential and rarely used. This way elements "enable auto refresh", “edit description”, “icon sizes”, ”legend”, “RSS” may be removed from home page and placed under "Manage Jenkins" or an upper menu. It is also possible to create new extension points to support new UI elements through plugins.

[Optional] Grouping credentials and their domains

Credentials page has too many reloads and requires many clicks to get to a required credentials page. That may be improved by removing the last page and showing credentials under domains.