1199877 - Talos reports platform_type w8_ for win10

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Testing :: Talos, defect)

Description

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

Saw in a log:

16:28:40     INFO -  DEBUG : operating with platform_type : w8_

And noticed https://github.com/mozilla/build-talos/blob/52a748a5d74786ba80c1d3363a27ff58b7b6360d/talos/ttest.py#L40

See https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/page.cgi?id=splinter.html&bug=1193033&attachment=8646883 for a similar issue that was hit in this same type of issue (python doesn't report the win version due to a change in win8.1's cycle)

And from py2.7's source you can see why that is not "good enough" when coupled with what we found out in Bug 1193033.  
https://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.7/Lib/platform.py#l553

Comment 1

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

what is used to determine the version on other platforms?  is it mozinfo?

Comment 2

[Justin Wood (:Callek)]

It varies on other platforms, mozinfo for some jobs, navigator.oscpu for others, and the actual user agent for still others. mozinfo was just recently updated to support w10 for this, with that attachment I linked to above (windows OS level api doesn't return >8.0 anymore, while only the kernel level API does)

Comment 3

[Amy Rich [:arr] [:arich]]

This bug was from 2015 and has been superseeded by the migration we've already done for talos tests to w10 and the taskcluster work that's ongoing.