Strongly prefer single-letter views over the letter-range view names. See JIRA for detailed explanation. Thanks.
On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 4:20 AM Gavin McDonald <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi All, > > We are starting to get complaints about the amount of top level views in > our Jenkins instance. > > I believe it is time for cleanup of those views once more. > > A few years ago, I cleaned up a heap of views and got quite some > complaints from projects > about doing so, without consultation, and the fact that this breaks links > some projects use. > > Since that time however, projects have continued to create new Top Level > views and now > we are at a stage where again there are too many - there are currently 22 > project type views. > > There are many more projects and I’d hate for this trend to continue > upwards and clutter the > main Jenkins landing page even more. > > I have created an INFRA ticket to track this at : > > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/INFRA-14002 > > The views I propose to remove are : > > Airavata, Apache Commons, Apex, Beam Brooklyn, Calciate, CarbonData, DL, > Groovy, Hawq, Infra Jobs Monitor View, Lucene, OWB, Olingo, OpenJPA, POI, > Shiro, Tamaya, Tika, XMLGraphics. cloudstack, directory > > Also: All the single letter viewss from A to Z. They are not much used and > it is preferred to use 'A-D', 'E-G', 'H-L', 'M-R' and 'S-Z' > > Two Views unsure what to do with are: 'Incubator Projects' and 'PreCommit > Builds' > > > Some views have already been removed, I removed one called ‘jobs I have > access to’ or something like that, the Maven project also removed their top > level views so my thanks to them. > The Infra jobs monitor view is one I created, my fault and Im going to > move it under H-L where it belongs. > > ACTION NEEDED:- Please, could all project who are listed above as having a > top level view, please move it to a view under the appropriate letters > group, or remove it. > > The two Im not sure about ‘Incubator Projects’ and ‘PreCommit Builds’ , > ‘Incubator Projects’ may be a benefit at top level if used correctly. > ‘PreCommit Builds’ is not one owned by any one project, Im unsure whether > this could stay top level and be a benefit. > > I’ll be moving the Infra views shortly. > > If, after a week, there are still projects at the top level view, I’ll > move onto the next step of mailing the projects dev lists directly, though > that should not be required if they have the representation on this list. > > Thanks in advance. > > I’ll keep the INFRA-14002 ticket updated with progress. > > Gav… (ASF Infra.) >
