1108154 - Create try-extender

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1254325

(Taskcluster :: General, defect)

Description

[James Lal [:lightsofapollo]]

After speaking with RyanVM I found some additional tooling we need to fully replace self-serve one of these is what I call "try-extender".

Try-extender is a UI which lists try flags from a given branch / revision (this should load from the in-tree configs in taskcluster) and presents a UI of all the flags. These check boxes are used to create a decision task which will extend an existing push with extra jobs.

Why? This is used primarily in the case where we need to debug problems (in lets say b2g-inbound) in periodic tasks. Currently this is done manually by creating the missing periodic tasks and seeing which commit the issue was created in.

Comment 1

[Ryan VanderMeulen [:RyanVM]]

Not sure how this fits in with the mozci plans.

Comment 2

[Armen [:armenzg]]

James, would you mind if we spoke in Whistler about this?
I should have some POC of mozci+TC support.

For the record, this sounds more like a dynamic trychooser (we're not limiting it to try, right?) *and* triggering what is selected.
We've talked about setting something like this up but I did not want to tackle it without TC support.

http://mozilla-ci-tools.readthedocs.org/en/master/use_cases.html#case-scenario-9-we-generate-data-to-build-a-dynamic-trychooser-ui

Comment 3

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

please keep the conversations/summaries public.  :gma_fav is looking into similar bugs and keeping everyone in the loop will help.

Comment 4

[Armen [:armenzg]]

We will.
Is that bug 983802?

Comment 5

[Joel Maher ( :jmaher ) (UTC -8)]

yes, these bugs seem very much related.

Comment 6

[Armen [:armenzg]]

I believe this depends on bug 1107597

Note:
* Creating an up-to-date trychooser is a different problem that this bug
* Once bug 1107597 is fixed we can have a UI that allows removing tasks that had not been scheduled by removing the self-dependencies of those tasks.

Comment 7

[Armen [:armenzg]]

The equivalent bug for the buildbot set up is bug 1185537.

Comment 8

[Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] (he/him)]

Armen, pulse_actions has given us this functionality, right?

Comment 9

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Yes, martianwars accomplished this in bug 1254325.

pulse_actions + treeherder + action tasks