NixOS / NixOS/hydra

Defaults are not user-friendly

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Description

  1. Projects are disabled by default when you create them with the UI.
  2. Jobsets for disabled projects don't evaluate and don't produce any error message that hint at this behaviour.

These two facts create a poor default user experience. As a user I expect that if fill out all the mandatory fields when creating projects and jobsets I either get

  • a functional build process
  • some errors hinting what went wrong.

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  3. Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
  4. Open a pull request that references the issue number.

Research direction

Start by tracing how the UI creates projects and jobsets, then follow what happens when a jobset belongs to a disabled project. Done should mean that the default setup produces a functional build process or displays an error explaining that the project is disabled.

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Assessment

Domain
ci-cd
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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