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Jenkins UI/UX online hackfest
On behalf of the JenkinsĀ User Experience,Ā DocumentationĀ andĀ Advocacy and OutreachĀ special interest groups, we are happy to announce theĀ online UI/UX hackfestĀ on May 25-29! Everyone is welcome to participate, regardless of their Jenkins development experience.
The goal is to get together and work on improving Jenkins user experience, including but not limited to user interface and user documentation. We also invite you to share experiences about Jenkins and to participate in UX testing. The event follows theĀ Jenkins is the WayĀ theme and the most active contributors will get special edition swag and prizes!
Event plan
This hackfest is NOT aĀ hackathon. We do not expect participants to dedicate all their time during the event timeframe, but hop-in/hop-out as their time allows. Everybody can spend as much time as they are willing to dedicate. Spending a few days or just a few hours is fine, any contributions matter regardless of their size. Jenkins development experience is not required, we have newcomer-friendly stories for those who want to start contributing to the project. We will also have a 24/7Ā jenkinsci/hackfestĀ Gitter chat for Q&A and coordination between contributors.
There will beĀ 3 main tracks:
- User InterfaceĀ – Improve look&feel and accessibility for Jenkins users, work on new read-only interface for instances managed with configuration as code, create and update Jenkins themes, and many other topics. This track is coordinated by theĀ UX SIG.
- User DocumentationĀ – Improve and create newĀ user documentation,Ā tutorialsĀ andĀ solution pages. Also, there is ongoing documentation migration from Wiki to jenkins.io and plugin repositories. This track is coordinated by theĀ Documentation SIG.
- Spread the wordĀ – Write user stories forĀ Jenkins Is The WayĀ site and theĀ Jenkins blog, post about your Jenkins user experience and new features, record overview and HOWTO videos, etc. This track is coordinated by theĀ Advocacy and Outreach SIG.
We are working on publishing project ideas and issues for the listed tracks. The current list can be found on theĀ UI / UX hackfest event page, this list will be finalized by the beginning of the hackfest. You are welcome to propose your own projects within the User Experience theme.
During the event, we will organizeĀ online meetupsĀ and ad-hoc training sessions in different timezones. All these sessions will be recorded and shared on ourĀ YouTube channel. There are no mandatory sessions you must attend, you are welcome to join ones remotely or watch the recordings. After the event we will invite participants to demo their projects at online meetings or recorded sessions.
Registration
P.S: Note that the registration form has a question top 3 things we could change in Jenkins to improve your user experience. We would appreciate your response there!
Contacts
Please use the following contacts to contact organizers:
Resources
- Event Page
- Registration form.
- Project ideasĀ (work-in-progress). The full list will be published by the beginning of the event.
- Frequently Asked Questions
- Contributing to Jenkins
- Code of Conduct
Swag and Prizes
Thanks to our sponsors (CloudBees, Inc.Ā andĀ Continuous Delivery Foundation), we are happy to offer swag to active contributors!
- 50Ā most-active contributors will get an exclusive “Jenkins Is The Way” T-shirt and stickers
- Active contributors will get Jenkins stickers and socks
- We are working on special prizes for top contributors, to be announced later
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Acknowledgements
We thank all contributors who participate in this event as committers! We especially thank all reviewers, organizers and those who participated in the initial program reviews and provided invaluable feedback. In particular, we thankĀ User Experience,Ā DocumentationĀ andĀ Advocacy and OutreachĀ SIG members who heavily contributed to this event.
We also thank sponsors of the event who make the swag and prizes possible:Ā CloudBees, Inc.Ā andĀ Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF). In addition to swag, CloudBees donates working time for event hosts and reviewers. CDF also sponsors ourĀ online meetup platformĀ which we will be using for the event.
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