1095048 - Have a way to separate PRs/master/2.x type push results on gaia-try

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Tree Management :: Treeherder, defect)

Description

[Miller Medeiros [:millermedeiros]]

I usually create gaia feature branches based on mozilla-b2g/master. But sometimes the build fails on gaia-try and I'm not sure what caused the failure; I always wonder if it failed because I started my branch from a broken commit or not.

It would be great if we could filter only commits from the master branch (and v2.x), that way it would be easier to identify what was the last "green build" and if we have "perma red" failures on master and/or release branches.

On [Travis](https://travis-ci.org/mozilla-b2g/gaia/builds) that was simpler.

Comment 1

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

So there isn't currently an easy way to do this in a clean way at the moment. We could do something hacky, but really the root cause of this workflow problem, is that gaia-try is being mis-used for multiple purposes. IMO we should split out the PR and non-PR pushes. As I understand it, with the jobs/repos being set up in TaskCluster (which will replace the buildbot scheduled jobs for B2G in the future) these have already been split. There is also bug 1037005 for splitting out the jobs in buildbot, but I suspect that will end up being made redundant, since it won't be fixed prior to the switch to Taskcluster.

CCing James for confirmation of the plan.

Also if anything it seems like the request to filter out PRs vs master really stem from wanting to:
a) Be able to pin/save/find your own pushes (a la a "my results" section that we're thinking of adding to treeherder in the future)
b) Making it easier to view the result of a try push's parent commit, or even better: diffing the two.

Comment 2

[Ed Morley [:emorley]]

(In reply to Ed Morley [:edmorley] from comment #1)
> Also if anything it seems like the request to filter out PRs vs master
> really stem from wanting to:
> a) Be able to pin/save/find your own pushes (a la a "my results" section
> that we're thinking of adding to treeherder in the future)

Filed bug 1095131.

> b) Making it easier to view the result of a try push's parent commit, or
> even better: diffing the two.

Filed bug 1095129.