1247703 - [tracker] refactor in-tree task configuration

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Firefox Build System :: Task Configuration, task)

Description

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

https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/jonasfj-bstack-in-tree-task-graph-generation
https://public.etherpad-mozilla.org/p/dustin-in-tree-config-kickoff

We met today to discuss requirements and design ideas, and agreed that we should each sit down and write up our "dream" of what the in-tree configuration should look like, without worrying about the code to translate that into createTask calls and whatnot.

So let's write that up and attach here in some form or another - perhaps mozreview requests against mozilla-central?

Comment 1

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

My proposal is here:
  https://github.com/djmitche/taskcluster-in-tree-taskgraph

Comment 2

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Pretty expressive and very impressive. Looking forward to it.

Comment 5

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

Just as a quick note on the status of this particular layer of the layer cake:

 * [x] bug 1258497 - Build an effective, robust task-graph generation infrastructure
   * still using existing YAML files (legacy kind)
   * includes porting docker-images to a new kind
 * [x] bug 1281004 - Port tests from the legacy kind
 * [ ] bug 1286075 - Port builds and build-like things from the legacy kind
   * and delete the legacy kind
 * [ ] Use the big-graph scheduler in mozilla-taskcluster (bug 1275034, bug 1274716)

There are, of course, lots of details and bugs and whatnot to deal with there, too, many of which are in
  https://gist.github.com/djmitche/9eb2ecf77020d7e86085