Very good feature. I also vote to remove the multiple plugins restriction, at least Publish Over SSH even lists that as a way to perform multiple commands on its help: "If you want to Exec before the files are transferred, use 2 Transfer Sets and move the Exec command before the Transfer set that includes a Source files pattern."
-- Paul Eipper On Sunday, May 13, 2012 2:37:14 PM UTC-3, domi wrote: > > Ulli, thats a really good idea!!!! > I think the sam would actually be helpful for triggers, these are getting > more and more too… > Domi > > On 13.05.2012, at 19:18, Ulli Hafner wrote: > > While I think that reordering and showing only active plug-ins is a great > improvement I think the selection of the action still is not optimal. Using > a List Box Button to select publishers is not very user friendly (at least > if you have more than 10 available). Especially when you need to scroll to > the bottom of the list it needs quite a lot of time until you reach the > last element of the list (maybe the scrolling can be improved anyway). The > same pattern is currently used for the portlets selection in the dashboard > view and I think it could be also improved by using a more intuitive > selection "view". E.g., something in the style of the Jira dashboard > selection. In Jira when you press the add button on the dashboard then a > selection dialog is opened where you see small previews of the available > portlets. This would also make sense for the publishers: here we can show a > small icon, a description, etc. Maybe we can also groupd by category... > > Ulli > > > On 05/11/2012 12:40 PM, Peter Franzén wrote > > Hi, > > A great improvement, but some Plugins are not added when I select them. > I tried some and works perfectly, but I can not add: > Coverity > Editable Email Notification > > Just nothing happens when I select them > > /Peter > > > Den torsdagen den 19:e april 2012 kl. 18:01:26 UTC+2 skrev Kohsuke > Kawaguchi: >> >> 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 >> > > > >
