Yes, so when coding it up you can make sure that the categories can be ordered, not by sorting on the name and that there also could be description text for each category ;)
/B On Wed, Sep 30, 2015 at 11:37 AM, Tom Fennelly <tom.fenne...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 30 September 2015 at 10:22, Robert Sandell <rsand...@cloudbees.com> > wrote: > >> Tom, my brain is still stuck on the categories ;) >> >> I think the experience could be made a bit better if the categories was >> ordered in a bit of a smarter way, both to follow some sort of thought >> pattern and to ease the user into the depths of what plugins can do. >> >> An example: >> >> Source Code Management >> Build Tools >> Reporters and Notifiers >> >> CD etc >> Job Organisation (folders, views et.al.) >> "All" >> >> *(I didn't remember what categories you chose exactly so I made some up)* >> >> By having the user first think about their build environment (the CI >> part), the scm, tools and report types etc. And then show conceptual things >> like CD pipelines. And at the end get the user thinking about how to >> organise it all into folders and such. and maybe some explanatory texts >> about the category itself. >> That could make the experience a bit easier and more thought through? >> >> /B >> > > Yeah, you may be right. I didn't come up with the categories (I think > Daniel did) and, to be honest, I'm not too hung up on that right now > because I know we'll probably need to go through a few rounds before we > find what works "best" in the general sense. > > I emphasise "best" there because I think no matter what we do it will not > be perfect and there will be situations where some may find it's not > logical (or smart) in some way. That's just the nature of this kind of > thing I think. So, if we concentrate on the mechanics of how the wizard > looks/works and make sure we provide a way to easily change the > categorisations etc later (without having to rewrite code etc), then we > should be good. That's my hope anyway. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Jenkins Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CA%2BbPaoK%2B8Y-wHp_MCxtkMNuV-ZzLqN2JsiDLbk5hNUsMcKTy9w%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CA%2BbPaoK%2B8Y-wHp_MCxtkMNuV-ZzLqN2JsiDLbk5hNUsMcKTy9w%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Robert Sandell *Software Engineer* *CloudBees Inc.* -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Jenkins Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-dev+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-dev/CALzHZS0UjZ6LQuSiCjmVGPrxrm%3DDK82qNM7oz5rsEapojzj0qg%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
