New Pipelines (BETA) feedback
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Harry B
I like the fast navigation to My Pipelines, but it's quite tedious to get to an actual log of a failed test. I've recorded a video on my full screen (in Arc/Chromium) how to get there - I may be getting it wrong, but it's tedious UX:
You can see I need to click/drag the handle quite a few times to get to the failure, and the fullscreen view is not really doing it (but if, instead of a modal, it would just open the detail it would be better IMHO, but I'm an engineer, not a designer).
Compare to existing flow that is basically 2 clicks:
I like the overall design, just please make the most common user flows just a click away, thanks!
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feedback on the new Pipeline UI.
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Yasutaka.umebayashi@gmail.com
I'd like to share some feedback on the new Pipeline UI.
The previous UI represented the pipeline as a graphical DAG, which made it very easy to understand the overall pipeline structure at a glance. It also made user actions such as approval steps intuitive and easy to perform.
In the new UI, the primary experience is a list view. While clicking on a workflow briefly shows the DAG on a canvas (similar to Miro) in the right panel, as soon as I open a job's details, that visualization disappears and the experience immediately returns to the list-based view.
A pipeline is fundamentally a DAG, and I don't think a list is the best representation for understanding or navigating it. The list view loses the overall context and makes it much harder to reason about dependencies, execution flow, and the current state of the pipeline.
I would sincerely appreciate having either:
* the previous DAG-centric UI restored as an option, or
* a new UI where the DAG remains the primary view throughout navigation, instead of disappearing once a job is selected.
The previous experience made it much easier to understand and operate complex pipelines. I hope you'll consider bringing back a DAG-first workflow.
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Pipeline beta access
Jacob Vanus
Please leave a way to not use the new pipeline UI. Trying to force everything into a single page is a downgrade over the current UI which allows browser tabs to function as expected.
Amitabh Handa
Thanks Harry - this was helpful feedback, we really appreciate it. We will consider ways to address your concerns as we iterate on the UX.