Role Strategy Plugin: user experience

Project goal: Improve UI and REST APIs using new technologies to make it more user-friendly

Skills to study/improve: Java, JavaScript, REST/GraphQL

Details

Role Strategy Plugin is widely used in Jenkins as an authorization engine, but it has a pretty legacy Web UI which could be significantly improved. The plugin’s existing APIs are also very limited, and they could be redesigned.

Ideas:

Redesign the WebUI using a new technology stack, e.g. React
Introduce new REST APIs and CLIs to improve manageability of the plugin
Introduce new logic to query permissions from Jenkins instances, probably as a part of the Security Inspector Plugin
Offer new features, e.g. the sudo mode for Jenkins administrators
Create more demos for the plugin using Configuration-as-Code and other such technologies

You can find more UX-related requests for the plugin using this JIRA query. As a part of the project applications, ideas for related plugins (e.g. Security Inspector or Ownership) may be also proposed.

Quickstart

Create a Jenkins instance with several projects and user roles defined by the plugin
- oleg-nenashev/demo-jenkins-config-as-code can be used as an example of such configuration
Try out various configurations of Role Strategy and explore the features documented for the plugin
Provide feedback about your user experience in Gitter

Newbie-friendly tasks

See this JIRA query. More issues can be added to the list if needed, please do not hesitate to ask in the task.

Potential Mentors

Project Links

Organization Links

Jenkins GSoC page - documentation, application guidelines
Participate and contribute to Jenkins - landing page for newcomer contributors
Newbie-friendly issues - list of organization-wide newbie-friendly issues (use them if there is no links in the project idea)

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