[securityfreak]

I am a very visual person. The first step before I start writing a workflow in gitlab is, that I draw the whole pipeline on a whiteboard as a tree/graph. We discuss it with the team and only then I start writing the .gitlab-ci.yml file.

Having something digital to substitute the whiteboard would be fantastic. Not just for designing the pipeline, but also for seeing the results of an actual run of the pipeline.

[crazysim]

I've been just draw a .gitlab-ci.yml file with random sleeps. Hell, I might expand upon that and make the sleeps sorta simulate the real thing but on a faster timescale for demo purposes.

[sytse]

That makes a lot of sense, thanks for writing it up.