Love it!

On Thursday, 19 April 2012 10:01:26 UTC-6, Kohsuke Kawaguchi wrote:
>
> Following up the conversation from JUC Paris, I pushed the "publisher"
> branch to the repository that changes the publisher configuration UI.
> I'd like to get feedback on whether people think this is a good idea
> or a bad idea.
>
> Currently, the "post-build action" of the project configuration page
> lists one checkbox per one publisher. This has a couple of problems:
>
>  - when you have a large number of plugins, as many large instances
> inevitably do, they occupy a large real estate in the configuration
> screen.
>
>  - you cannot reorder them
>
> In the branch, instead of a big list of checkboxes, you get a
> drop-down menu button just like the main "build' section. And then
> you'll be adding publishers by clicking them.
>
>  - once you add a publisher of a certain kind, it gets grayed out and
> prevents you from adding 2nd (and if you actually click the grayed out
> item, you jump to the corresponding part of the page.) (this
> restriction of one instance per one publisher might be something worth
> removing in the future?)
>
>  - new items are inserted into their preferred position, instead of
> getting added to the bottom, so that users normally wouldn't have to
> think about the proper ordering among them (you generally want the
> data collection tasks to come before the notification tasks.)
>
> - a few animations to go with it.
>
> Looking forward to hearing back.
>
> -- 
> Kohsuke Kawaguchi
>
>

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