James Dumay added a comment - 2017-02-08 01:47 shahmishal This sounds like JENKINS-38442 . Would you agree?

Michael Neale added a comment - 2017-02-08 07:04 shahmishal jamesdumay I sketched what this may look like with matrix. I think what is really being looked for here is matrix support - but with some limited nested stages. Any time there is a bulk fan out, 90% of the time people want matrix. One plan is just to have proper matrix support for these cases. So this may look in pseudo pipeline, something like: parallel( 'release' : { stage( 'Build' ) { .. } stage( 'Test' ) { matrix(...) { } } }, 'debug' : { stage( 'Build' ) { .. } stage( 'Test' ) { matrix(...) { } } } ) This would allow the differnet stages to run concurrently before joining up with subsequent stages... thoughts? closer?

mishal shah added a comment - 2017-02-08 07:51 michaelneale Yes, this sounds closer to what I was looking for. https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-38442 is lot more complex but it would work too.

James Dumay added a comment - 2017-02-08 21:21 shahmishal this is good to know. I think the ultimate solution for JENKINS-38442 , based on the use cases we are hearing more and more of, is that Pipeline needs better support for matrix style testing. Im going to close this against JENKINS-38442 and link it to our internal tracker for matrix.