TV dashboard for Pipelines
Description
TV dashboard can be useful to see the status of your pipelines (and other information) in a simple way) while working in an office, just looking at it from time to time.
This allows a real time tracking of what's going on.
Proposal
Implement a specific view for pipelines that is suitable for TV monitors.
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Documentation blurb
Overview
What is it? Why should someone use this feature? What is the underlying (business) problem? How do you use this feature?
Use cases
Who is this for? Provide one or more use cases.
Feature checklist
Make sure these are completed before closing the issue, with a link to the relevant commit.
- Feature assurance
- Documentation
- Added to features.yml
Activity
Related conversation from slack:
kamilt [12:27 PM] @dzaporozhets: I would like to see some dashboard for CI that you could put on TV screen in your company, but maybe this should be implemented as separate project :simple_smile: jeroen [12:30 PM] @kamilt that would be awesome! dzaporozhets [12:35 PM] @kamilt: yeah that would be nice. But I would expect it to be like http://www.buildmonitor.io/img/buildmonitor-new.png dzaporozhets [12:35 PM] instead of listing all builds - which is less informative and boring kamilt [12:35 PM] @dzaporozhets: Yes, I agree :simple_smile:Hi, It is I who have spoken of this feature on twiter (https://twitter.com/gitlab/status/659073056674062336). I use all the time the dashboard/admin-page on old CI because I have more than 100 projects in my gitlab and so, a lot of builds :) So, I have not done the update to gitlab 8.x
@dzaporozhets No ?
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@ayufan do you think we should plan it for some milestone?
@dzaporozhets Yes, maybe we can try to solve this for 8.4 or 8.5 release?
We have this for admin users in admin area. But what is practical reason for having such page for normal user? You can see projects status on dashboard. Why would you be interested in list of builds from all projects in one place?
While I now also see the use case for some (very few) people, I would really like to propose to not clutter the normal UI with this. Quite a few UI elements have been added recently already, and I think it is totally essential to keep the UI clean to be able to be productive.
Maybe this dashboard could do without a (prominently placed) link/button in the normal UI (for the TV screen scenario, you would only open the page once, right?).
Reassigned to @skyruler
if you want to put it on tv, light version will work bad. However we can have both. Here is some update and light version is coming asap.
This is for TV USE ONLY
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@skyruler TV version looks awesome!
Milestone changed to 8.6
mentioned in issue gitlab-foss#13559 (closed)
Milestone changed to 8.8
mentioned in issue gitlab-foss#14717 (closed)
mentioned in issue gitlab-foss#15598 (closed)
mentioned in issue gitlab-foss#17686 (closed)
Milestone changed to %8.9 in gitlab-foss
mentioned in issue gitlab-foss#3060 (closed)
@dzaporozhets any updates on this, Max Woolf expressed interest on Twitter in working on something similar :)
@connorshea We should concentrate on showing your Pipelines rather than Builds.
@markpundsack What do you think? :)
@ayufan Yes, I'd rather focus on Pipelines, and replace this with https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18054. We've even talked about killing the Builds list completely. So let's close this one and focus on pipelines.
To enable the TV usage above, this would also depend on having a pipelines API (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18029) which may not happen for a while.
We should concentrate on showing your Pipelines rather than Builds.
How come you treat those feature as interchangeable? We need a view of all builds to display them on a big TV visible by all team members. Correct me if I'm wrong by the "pipeline" feature seems to be something different.
I agree with Adam's comment above.
Having a TV build monitor is something that my team are definitely looking for. The screenshots above are EXACTLY what I'm after. Im not sure if this issue has been closed, just because it mentions builds - this is just terminology confusion.
We're used to seeing a summary of all our "jobs" in Jenkins, via: https://wiki.jenkins-ci.org/display/JENKINS/Build+Monitor+Plugin And the flexibility this provides is massive, i.e. you can filter the monitor via names that match a regex, only show failing jobs etc.
The gitlab CI monitor should have the option on whether to show red/green for Pipelines (i.e. the status of each pipeline) or show the "Job Summary" (what jobs in what pipelines are failing).
mentioned in issue gitlab-foss#18054 (moved)
To anyone interested in this, please upvote my comment here: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18054#note_21173799.
mentioned in issue gitlab-foss#29906 (moved)
mentioned in issue gitlab-foss#26858 (moved)
@markpundsack This feature is about having a view that optimized for TV display. I understand that pipelines and improving pipelines'API (https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18054) are blockers for this issue, but they aren't a replacement.
Is it possible to re-open, or what would you suggest to do to track this feature request ?
@cleankod @andreoid @ant31 This issue, as originally stated in the description is about a list of builds (which we now call jobs). Since we have moved to showing Pipelines rather than individual Jobs, the focus will be on showing Pipelines. If there's value in also showing Jobs, then we'll certainly consider that, but there's already pressure to remove the Jobs tab in a few places as it seems unnecessary. At any rate, a list view of this information would be covered by https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/18054, thus this issue is closed as a duplicate.
It seems that some people are interested in a more visual dashboard of information (whether pipelines or jobs) suitable for TV use, and there are even some mockups in this thread, but that not what the issue was originally for. If you're interested in that, please create a new issue. If you really want, we can resurrect this issue and rewrite the description to make it clear that it's about a TV dashboard. /cc @bikebilly
@markpundsack This issue should be resurrected. Everyone is asking for a dashboard. "Build" vs "pipeline" isn't relevant here.
@markpundsack the issue is using the wording / api from when it was created, looks like more an implementation detail.
we can resurrect this issue and rewrite the description to make it clear that it's about a TV dashboard
SGTM
Edited by username-removed-97402mentioned in issue gitlab-foss#35790 (moved)
@bikebilly Do you want to take a stab at rescoping this?
@sarrahvesselov if I remember correctly, your team was involved in a discussion about TV dashboards, and for sure UX in GitLab FOSS has a leading actor here.
Thanks for the ping @bikebilly ! We have been researching and discussing admin/team dashboards across several different issues. This sounds similar, though we have never specifically looked at creating them for a TV screen. Here are some links to the research and issues we already have if you would like some light reading
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/ux-research/issues/24
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/37195
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ee/issues/3277
https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/27111
I also just met with @joshlambert yesterday to discuss this meta issue which very much encompasses this https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/38373
We can also consider to decouple the solutions and have a dashboard (data presenter) that is available in both a "traditional" view and a "tv screen" view, so we just have two frontend rendering for the same info.
I believe that the place to start is with a proper 'traditional' dashboard. Once we have that, it will not be a far leap to create a "tv friendly" view. I see this issue as something that should come after we work out the other issue I linked to.
added feature proposal label
moved from gitlab-foss#3235 (moved)
