Re:Can we use Jenkins for that?
by vorg on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @06:26PM
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You only need recognition-memory to use Web and GUI interfaces, whereas you need recall-memory to use command line interfaces and scripts, which is far more difficult. That's why clicking in a Web GUI or graphical XML-generator replaced scripting. You need a lot of previous information in your memory for recall to write stuff like the following example taken from your linked page:
The vocabulary and grammar in that script is quite complicated and people would rather be presented with the options for clicking on a web page. But perhaps you're promoting a particular software product?
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GUIs are more discoverable than command lines. Text files are easier to save in version control. So it's common to have a system where the GUI hooks new users, but they eventually have enough configuration in it that the GUI is no longer a reasonable way to control it all, and they need a way to extract the information in a reasonable format. Hence the reason several Jenkins plugins have evolved to do that.