Custom job names in pipeline

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Problem to solve

Improve pipeline readability for humans

Further details

Consider wanting to have consistent name output in a pipeline:

stages:
  - lint
  - build

node.js:
  # job here

node.js:
  # job here

This will fail: I'm essentially attempting to lint and build a node.js project but would today be required to add a prefix/suffix to jobs just to have it parse correctly.

Proposal

I'd like to improve the pipeline ui by adding a custom attribute to a job called "name". This would allow the customization of the name in a pipeline which currently is somewhat parsed from the job definition in .gitlab-ci.yml (by somewhat I mean that the parsing does things like capitalize, remove hyphens etc).

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

stages:
  - lint
  - build

node-lint:
  name: Node.js
  # job here

node-build:
  name: Node.js
  # job here

Links / references

Tangential issue: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/25610