When throttling a set of jobs, to avoid having to manage job categories in System Configuration (that I don't necessarily have permissions to access), it would be nice if we could throttle builds by job names.

Consider this sequence of jobs:

PROJECT-build
PROJECT-ENV1-deploy
PROJECT-ENV1-test
PROJECT-ENV2-deploy
PROJECT-ENV2-test
PROJECT-ENV2-perf_test

I could configure two categories and attach ENV1 and ENV2 jobs to those.

However, it would be easier if I could just throttle builds per job name as in:

• ^PROJECT-ENV1-.*$ for env #1 jobs
• ^PROJECT-ENV2-.*$ for env #2 jobs

The problems with having to maintain categories is:

• Need permissions to Manage Jenkins > Configure System
• Cannot create categories via Job DSL plugin
• It's unneeded extra work if you follow sensible naming conventions and use regex