UX of "waiting for agent" could be improved

[petemounce]

What happens now

When a job is scheduled, it shows as waiting for agent, as above. It shows as a yellow lozenge in the pipeline.

Our context

We auto-scale our agent queues up and down with demand. This means at any point, there might not be an agent available for a job, but there shortly will be if configuration is correct and an agent ever existed that could satisfy the job in the past.

Improvement possibilities

• Show how many agents exist right now that could run this job
  • Set the expectation that the job can be run, just not right now - user-be-patient
• If no agents exist right now that could run this job and no agents have ever in the past existed that could run this job, show some icon/note to that effect.
  • Set the expectation that the job will block until agents become available or configuration is fixed - user-fix-thing

[dannykansas]

These features would be a fantastic improvement for new users/those coming from platforms where there is more tight-coupling between a "master" and a "worker". +1 all around.