1227240 - Create a python package cli tool to play with taskcluster API for various ops

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Release Engineering :: Applications: Shipit, defect)

Description

[Mihai Tabara [:mtabara]⌚️GMT]

During the release-promotion mini-work-week in Toronto 16-20 Nov we agreed that we need a python-package cli-tool to play against taskcluster API in order to perform several operations for the tasks: cancel/rerun/report-as-completed. 

Later on, the implementation needs to be extrapolated to Ship-it in order to be able to control the aforementioned ops on the tasks there, directly from the UI. 

For the moment the tool ought to live as a python package (pypi | our own index, etc) for testing.

Comment 1

[Mihai Tabara [:mtabara]⌚️GMT]

Finished wrapping the cli tool in a presentable form.

Pypi index: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tctalker
Github repo: https://github.com/MihaiTabara/tctalker

I'll mark the bug as Resolved-WORKSFORME until feedback/more instructions from Rail.

Comment 2

[Mihai Tabara [:mtabara]⌚️GMT]

Am adding Rail back to have a look on this.

Comment 3

[Rail Aliiev [:rail]]

Great job! I commented in https://github.com/MihaiTabara/tctalker/commit/ae8b899f6083def7585d990b6a7bc6cc965c2825#diff-01ab12d9e955aa832a81df09c3399ce2R131 - really minor issues.

Ship it!

Comment 4

[Mihai Tabara [:mtabara]⌚️GMT]

@Rail: I've pushed a commit that addresses the refactoring you have suggested: https://github.com/MihaiTabara/tctalker/commit/9dc4663deca998b17761cfb224fd7533ec8d5343

Should you're okay with it - I'll push and bump another version here: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tctalker

Questions:
1. What now? Where is this supposed to be shipped?
2. Do you want the package in the Moz internal Pypi?
3. What are the next steps for this? I remember we were talking about integration with Ship-it. Do we track that work here or should we use another bug?

Thanks!

Comment 5

[Rail Aliiev [:rail]]

(In reply to Mihai Tabara [:mtabara] from comment #4)
> @Rail: I've pushed a commit that addresses the refactoring you have
> suggested:
> https://github.com/MihaiTabara/tctalker/commit/
> 9dc4663deca998b17761cfb224fd7533ec8d5343
> 
> Should you're okay with it - I'll push and bump another version here:
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tctalker
> 
> Questions:
> 1. What now? Where is this supposed to be shipped?

Maybe move under github.com/mozilla?

> 2. Do you want the package in the Moz internal Pypi?

Not right know. Probably we need to try using it first.

> 3. What are the next steps for this? I remember we were talking about
> integration with Ship-it. Do we track that work here or should we use
> another bug?

Maybe add some examples on how to use it?

Ship-it integration would be the next phase. The idea is to add similar functionality using browser (JS), something similar to tools.taskcluster.net.

Comment 6

[Mihai Tabara [:mtabara]⌚️GMT]

* improved README with examples: https://github.com/MihaiTabara/tctalker
* bumped version for tctalker to cope with changes following review and discussing in this bug: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tctalker
* transferred the repo under @Mozilla Github

Questions and follow-ups:
* please move https://github.com/mozilla/tctalker under @mozilla/releng. Both me and Amy unsuccessfully struggled with it during this morning
* since this package is fleeting till we deploy JS changes, should worry about adding python-related logistics (travis, tox and alike, etc)?
* the JS part doesn't sound that complicated. with this package in the ship-it dependencies (after proper testing), we would need to add some Bootstrap buttons + JS functionality to glue them up. right?

Let me know if you want to have a quick mtg over this to discuss the further steps.
Thanks for the help.

Comment 7

[Mihai Tabara [:mtabara]⌚️GMT]

Rail has successfully tested this earlier this week. I'm closing this for now as I'll file separate bugs for ShipIt/ javascript integration.