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  2. JENKINS-49990

Blue Ocean pipeline branches are not sorted by completion date

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    • blueocean-plugin
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    • Jenkins 2.108, Blue Ocean 1.4.2

      The Blue Ocean display is meant for super generic pipelines, where there is no human intervention. That's great in an ideal world, but in the real world CI/CD does have moments with manual intervention. As a result manually triggering pipelines is desirable in many situations. I don't know if this is part of the original design spec, but I think it should be possible to accommodate this with some small UI/UX changes.

      I'll create several issues if needed, I'll start with the first issues encountered:
      1. triggering a "Run" can only be done on the "Branches" tab (in the "Activity" tab there is only "Replay"
      2. the "Branches" tab is unsorted (or sorted according to some ID not visible directly in the UI)

      1. Why is this important? "Replay" can't be parameterized. You just run the previous pipeline execution, presumably with the same parameters. So in the first tab you see for a pipeline, there's no way to have a "custom" execution of the pipeline, even though Blue Ocean supports it, as we shall see.

      2. This means that if you have your average numbered release branches (1.0.0, 2.0.0, etc.), your main/master/develop/release/whatever ends up off-screen, at the bottom of the screen. I think the "Branches" tab should be sorted based on the last completion date. This way your most active branch is actually at the tab (usually master or so).

          [JENKINS-49990] Blue Ocean pipeline branches are not sorted by completion date

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