Blue Ocean Dev Log: March Week #2

Published on 3/10/2017 by Michael Neale

    We’re counting down the weeks until Blue Ocean 1.0. This week was one of continuing consolidation and polish. We also released b25 (beta #25), a collectors edition. The next version we will likely release will be a release candidate (RC). The b25 release however contained a number of fixes and features, such as branch filtering.

    Editing a Pipeline

    Some other updates of note from this past week:

    • Updated a bunch of dependencies around Pipeline and fixed a whole lot of long standing bugs.

    • Some work went on to make acceptance tests run on varied browsers via Sauce Labs thanks to @halkeye!

    • The Blue Ocean Pipeline Editor had its Save to SCM/GitHub functionality merged to master branch. It won’t be released to the Update Center until the next Blue Ocean release, there are a few more things to iron out.

    • As the Blue Ocean Pipeline Editor is now considered to be part of Blue Ocean now, more people are kicking the tires, and starting to contribute fixes to improve it!

    • The swishy "Blue Ocean" logo is gone, Jenkins branding is back (mixed feelings!)

    • Fixes for concurrent users of input

    • Fixes for handling errors around favoriting of Pipelines and more.

    • Speeding up creation of Multibranch Pipelines via the new "Creation" flow.

    And of course, a nice pretty screenshot of editing and saving a Multibranch Pipeline with the Blue Ocean Pipeline Editor:

    Editing and saving a Pipeline

    Up next for the Blue Ocean project:

    • More consolidation and polish.

    • A first release candidate out the door (!)

    • New, sleeker, favorite card design, possibly a table design too.

    Also note that there are changelogs maintained and visible on the Blue Ocean plugin page.

    Enjoy!

    If you’re interested in helping to make Blue Ocean a great user experience for Jenkins, please join the Blue Ocean development team on Gitter!

    About the Author
    Michael Neale
    		Michael Neale

    Michael is a CD enthusiast with a interest in User Experience. He is a co-founder of CloudBees and a long time OSS developer, and can often be found lurking around the jenkins-dev mailing list or #jenkins on irc (same nick as twitter name). Before CloudBees he worked at Red Hat.