1242675 - [mozilla-taskcluster] Report error to treeherder when a task cannot be retriggered

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Taskcluster :: Services, defect)

Description

[Greg Arndt [:garndt]]

mozilla-taskcluster should report an error when retriggering a task fails.  Currently this error is caught and reported to our papertrail logs, but the user does not have any indication that this failed.


Place where this is caught:

https://github.com/taskcluster/mozilla-taskcluster/blob/master/src/jobs/retrigger.js#L135

Comment 1

[Greg Arndt [:garndt]]

Looking at how we handle decision task errors, it appears that mozilla-taskcluster will actually create a taskcluster task that echos to the log what the error was when creating it and then relies on the normal handling of tasks being reports to treeherder on completion to get that error in there.

I think we could just create a new job in treeherder with a failure summary of what the error is instead of creating a task.

Comment 2

[Greg Arndt [:garndt]]

Attachment: https://github.com/taskcluster/mozilla-taskcluster/pull/48

Comment 3

[Jonas Finnemann Jensen (:jonasfj)]

Comment on attachment 8721300 [details] [review]
https://github.com/taskcluster/mozilla-taskcluster/pull/48

See PR, looks good to me.

Comment 4

[Greg Arndt [:garndt]]

Merged and deployed 

https://github.com/taskcluster/mozilla-taskcluster/commit/68306fde26a04293800092a6bc27b871b5d69add