Grouping with meaningful names

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Problem to solve

Today we have tasks like this:

:build:android:feature_set1
:build:android:feature_set2
:build:ios:feature_set1
:build:ios:feature_set2

Due to the large numbers of variants we build our build stage with two dozen jobs. The existing grouping method falls short because it only allows grouping with a common name:

:build:ios 1/3
:build:ios 2/3
:build:ios 3/3

This drops important information from the job label.

Intended users

I believe this would be useful for larger customers with a variety of builds create a more organized pipeline.

Further details

Proposal

I believe the most direct way of dealing with this issue would be to place additional information to the right of the part number, for example:

:build:ios 1/3 variantA
:build:ios 2/3 variantB
:build:ios 3/3 variantC

In the GUI the item would collapse to :build:ios and on hover it would display

:build:ios:variantA
:build:ios:variantB
:build:ios:variantC

Permissions and Security

No security changes are proposed

Documentation

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Testing

From a testing standpoint this is simply a display change.

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

Success would make the grouping feature more useful by allowing grouping with additional information displayed in the pop out box.

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