Hi all, I've been using Jenkins for a year now, and I'm missing the following features... Do they exist in a plugin that I missed?
More context is available at http://xnodet.blogspot.fr/2012/09/suggestions-for-jenkins-on-multi.html Thanks. Detect stale jobs We sometimes have jobs that stop running (no new run is triggered, or no available nodes). This is of course not intended, and it would be nice to be able to detect those easily. I suppose that adding a 'Last build' column to the list view, that would display the time since the job entered its current state, would be nice. Something like 'Ended 8.6 hr' or 'Queued 1.3 hr' or 'Started 12 min'... Then I'd know that if the code changed 3 hours ago, I shouldn't see any number larger than 3 hours... Detect hung jobs We have many jobs running, typically 20 to 30 simultaneously. And some builds last for several hours. It happens that tests hang, or are abnormally slow. These situations should be detected as soon as possible for investigation. Unfortunately, the 'Build History' list is not very helpful, for two reasons. It has too few jobs for us: with 50 builds, only the last 5 hours are covered, which is less than the duration of many of our builds. But then if this limit was increased, we'd probably need a list of 200 or so jobs, which would not be easy to handle. I would thus suggest to allow filtering on the 'building' status. When this flag would be set, the 'Build History' would only display the jobs that are currently being built. A view 'by revision' I often need to check if a given revision of the source has been built by a given job, or what is the latest revision that is good on a set of jobs. For example, I may want to merge this revision to some 'stable' branch for other teams to use. I think that a grid view with the following attributes would be very useful for this: each line is a commit id or SVN revision, each column is a job, each cell is blue, red or gray (or even empty if this revision has not yet been part of a run of the job, or the run is not finished yet). Do you think these would be useful additions? -- Xavier Nodet
