Crazy Idea: XML to YAML and back again

[bencentra]

It was brought up in the meeting with Dan and Leslie: what if we could take the config.xml of Jenkins jobs and use that to generate our YAML pipelines? Basically, reverse the whole process.

Just a thought.

[crimsonknave]

Sounds good to me, you'll still have to do some work to pull things out into variables, but it would make fiddling around with the jenkins UI until you get it the way you want and then creating the yaml by hand easier.

[sinangedik]

It would be an awesome feature! I always tend to model my pipeline manually in the jenkins web UI and the try to YAMLize it after. If we had this feature, automating things would be much faster.