Provide indication of waiting for executor

[mrjoel]

What feature do you want to see added?

The pipeline console in almost all cases is better than the regular console, and I'm starting to evaluate making it the default. There is one main case I've been running into that where it doesn't give me the same useful status.

For a pipeline using an agent label where all are busy, the default console output provides the status message below which conveys status of being blocked.

HH:MM:SS Waiting for next available executor on 'label'

However, when viewing the same blocked state in the Pipeline Console display, all I get is the the spinning blue icon with three dots. The stage card itself just displays the stage name, started, queued, and duration times, along with "Running" and the view as plain text link (which just shows "No logs found").

Ideally, instead of the misleading "Running" status it would indicate queued, or some other way of indicating waiting on a particular label (with link to view label as regular console would be great as well).

As an example, my pipeline looks something like the skeleton below. The "Prep Work" stage runs to completion, and I just see the spinning on each of the "Build" stages waiting for agent.

pipeline {
  agent none
  stages {
    stage("Prep Work") { ... }
    stage("Build") {
      parallel {
        stage("Linux") {
          agent { label "linux && (label || hostname)" }
          steps { ... }
        }
        stage("Windows") {
          agent { label "windows && (label || hostname)" }
          steps { ... }
        }
      }
    }
  }

Upstream changes

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Are you interested in contributing this feature?

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