Jenkins pipeline plugin: set the build description

Question

I\'m trying to replace our current build pipeline, currently hacked together using old-school Jenkins jobs, with a new job that uses the Jenkins pipeline plugin, and loads a

Answer 1

I'm not sure how old it is, but I recently discovered the buildDescription plugin that gives you a declarative method to set the build description. Once installed, it's as easy as:

steps {
  buildDescription 'my build'
}

The console will show a step output: New run description is 'my build'