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DevOps Pipelines Re-design
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Description
During the Hannover Messe we had a couple of users play around with the DevOps pipelines and the confusion they caused became obvious.
We would need a more intuitive/user-friendly approach into handling pipelines and deployments
This story serves as a placeholder to get things going in this regard.
Which customers would this be available to
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Have you provided an initial effort estimate for this issue?
I have provided an initial effort estimate
@cstns Please elaborate. What confusion did users experience? What is needed to make this more intuitive?
Firstly we were showcasing the Pipelines feature on a tablet, which the UI is not optimized for.
Secondly, while showcasing, there were remarks on the outdated look and feel of the pipelines which I tend to agree with.
- the pipeline triggers were not immediately obvious
- the representation of the stages themselves does not 'resemble' a and is not intuitive pipeline (see gitlab's pipelines interface as an example)
- editing/creating a pipeline stage UI could be streamlined (similarly to what we've don the the instance creation form)
- it is not immediately clear that the artefact of a pipeline stage will be pushed onwards to the following stage
- we do not have a overview/history of pipelines that ran and neither of their resulting artefacts
These are the few that I can remember and I'm sure I missed a few