Re: Workflow Plugin questions
On Tuesday, December 16, 2014 5:15:31 AM UTC-5, Jo Shields wrote: How can I change the title of a step in the Running Steps page? Shell Script three dozen times is not useful. I'd like to be able to change this header. https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-26107 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Jenkins Users group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/104ca153-74e9-45c1-b875-0fe0df2d7d65%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Workflow Plugin questions
On Tuesday, 16 December 2014 10:15:31 UTC, Jo Shields wrote: Hi, We're looking to use Jenkins w/ workflow to replace our in-house CI system. However, there's a bunch of stuff that doesn't seem to be present in the addin (some of it might be missing features, some might be plugin compatibility, some might be me not seeing something in the documentation) 1) How can I change the title of a step in the Running Steps page? Shell Script three dozen times is not useful. I'd like to be able to change this header. I've been looking at implementing this, though I find myself a bit confused by the code (though I am VERY rusty when it comes to Java - they didn't change anything in the language syntax since 2001, right?) The name of the step comes from DescriptorImpl.getDisplayName() - but this method is static, so I can't just have a per-instance name property (with default as it is now). However, the stage step is re-nameable. Yet I don't see how this is done, in StageStep.java - what am I missing? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Jenkins Users group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/ec96bfb8-d795-4419-a08b-681d16da0a05%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Workflow Plugin questions
On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 10:50 AM, James Nord te...@teilo.net wrote:
Its not possible as far as I am aware - and it was something I mentioned
a few months ago.
However - in my previous usage of this - it didn't really matter about the
50 shell scripts - as they where grouped logically into several areas
(build it, test it, deploy it to clean test system, test test system,
deploy it to another test system (with live data), test it, deploy it to
live...)
So all we cared about at the top level was which part of the thing failed
(building, testing or deploying...) - and then when something failed - it
doesn't matter its called shell script as its failed and you are
interested in the logs!
This grouping can be acheived with the 'stage' step.
The more hoops my developers need to jump through, especially as compared
to our existing in-house CI system, the more pushback I get from them about
migrating away from the in-house system to Jenkins. Not being able to see
at a glance which step has failed because they don't have meaningful naming
isn't useful or helpful. Especially in a long list of steps. I could give
every step a named stage, but then I just have output which is twice as
verbose as it needs to be. The Groovy DSL already supports multiple
properties in a step, why not allow either a 'merge the logging of this
step into the parent stage's output' property, or a 'override the name for
this step' property? Does that seem insane?
Cloudbees announced a really great visualization for this (non free) but
the basis is there in the open source version for you to write your own
visualization.
https://www.cloudbees.com/products/jenkins-enterprise/plugins/workflow-stage-view-plugin
This might be exactly what I'm after - but there doesn't seem to be any
screenshot, or online demo, of the plugin.
2) How can I time out the build on inactivity? Sometimes our test
suite can get stuck - we use build-timeout to kill unresponsive processes
look at the timeout step.
I believe (not used it) that this is implemented with something like
timeout('180s') {
sh 'thisMayHang.sh'
}
This appears to be for purely killing the process after X period of time.
The Build-timeout plugin supports multiple strategies for timeouts, which
are better suited to variable-length stuff (like test suites, whose
performance isn't guaranteed on a shared VM host):
https://github.com/jenkinsci/build-timeout-plugin/tree/master/src/main/java/hudson/plugins/build_timeout/impl
3) How can I add annotation to Running Steps? For example, that
screen would be much more useful if a test suite step could explicitly
list the failed tests right from that page, rather than needing to
click through to the logs (or use another plugin like
build-failure-analyzer)
if your test suite can output junit style reports (or cucumber/gherkin
maybe coming soon) then you just need to call the plugin to parse these and
they will be displayed in the main page as a trend etc just like with
normal jobs.
It's just an example, and again, it's about getting the information density
to a point where it's useful. We also use our summary field for
reporting on various attributes of the current build environment (such as
the versions and license status of installed components), or which decision
was made for a step where multiple behaviours are valid (e.g. whether or
not an older version of something was overwritten when uploading a
version-numbered file). Sure, it could just be in stdout for the logs for
the step. But, again, it's about getting information density to a point
where it's useful.
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Workflow Plugin questions
Hi, We're looking to use Jenkins w/ workflow to replace our in-house CI system. However, there's a bunch of stuff that doesn't seem to be present in the addin (some of it might be missing features, some might be plugin compatibility, some might be me not seeing something in the documentation) 1) How can I change the title of a step in the Running Steps page? Shell Script three dozen times is not useful. I'd like to be able to change this header. 2) How can I time out the build on inactivity? Sometimes our test suite can get stuck - we use build-timeout to kill unresponsive processes 3) How can I add annotation to Running Steps? For example, that screen would be much more useful if a test suite step could explicitly list the failed tests right from that page, rather than needing to click through to the logs (or use another plugin like build-failure-analyzer) Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Jenkins Users group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to jenkinsci-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/jenkinsci-users/5a9a70f9-25b6-400b-b28c-24190977e793%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
Re: Workflow Plugin questions
On 16/12/2014 10:15, Jo Shields wrote:
Hi,
We're looking to use Jenkins w/ workflow to replace our in-house CI
system. However, there's a bunch of stuff that doesn't seem to be
present in the addin (some of it might be missing features, some might
be plugin compatibility, some might be me not seeing something in the
documentation)
if something is missing and you find a way to do it - pull requests with
updated documentation would be welcomed.
1) How can I change the title of a step in the Running Steps page?
Shell Script three dozen times is not useful. I'd like to be able to
change this header.
Its not possible as far as I am aware - and it was something I mentioned
a few months ago.
However - in my previous usage of this - it didn't really matter about
the 50 shell scripts - as they where grouped logically into several areas
(build it, test it, deploy it to clean test system, test test system,
deploy it to another test system (with live data), test it, deploy it to
live...)
So all we cared about at the top level was which part of the thing
failed (building, testing or deploying...) - and then when something
failed - it doesn't matter its called shell script as its failed and
you are interested in the logs!
This grouping can be acheived with the 'stage' step.
Cloudbees announced a really great visualization for this (non free) but
the basis is there in the open source version for you to write your own
visualization.
https://www.cloudbees.com/products/jenkins-enterprise/plugins/workflow-stage-view-plugin
2) How can I time out the build on inactivity? Sometimes our test
suite can get stuck - we use build-timeout to kill unresponsive processes
look at the timeout step.
I believe (not used it) that this is implemented with something like
|timeout('180s') {
sh 'thisMayHang.sh'
}
|
3) How can I add annotation to Running Steps? For example, that
screen would be much more useful if a test suite step could explicitly
list the failed tests right from that page, rather than needing to
click through to the logs (or use another plugin like
build-failure-analyzer)
if your test suite can output junit style reports (or cucumber/gherkin
maybe coming soon) then you just need to call the plugin to parse these
and they will be displayed in the main page as a trend etc just like
with normal jobs.
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