1266602 - Remind people they have other try pushes under the same bug so they will remember to cancel them

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Release Engineering :: General, defect)

Description

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

We should ask people to cancel jobs they no longer needed. The format can be like that's being suggested here:

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/dlPuhaq81nU/ozKlEEPCAgAJ

Comment 1

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

For the record, I am filing this under Release Engineering::Tools because I think it make more sense to implement this on the hg server than in mach (since we don't know how many people pushes to try with mach).

I don't really know if it's possible to show an interactive prompt from hg remote though. Don't implement that if it's not possible.

Comment 2

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

This should be implemented in `mach try`.

Comment 3

[Tim Guan-tin Chien [:timdream] (please needinfo)]

(In reply to Gregory Szorc [:gps] from comment #2)
> This should be implemented in `mach try`.

That means the audiance will be limited to user of mach; ppl do `hg push -f try` will not be seeing the new message?

Comment 4

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

Having hg.mozilla.org talk to various services and attempt to do interactive communication with clients is a can of worms, especially regarding authentication/credentials. It's much easier to solve these problems with `mach try`.

Comment 5

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Is there a way that the hg pushes would print something for the user without blocking? (e.g. making async call to a new API which delivers messages to the pusher out of band) Since I know that we don't want to make hg pushes costly on the hg servers.

|mach try| could call such API to make sure that both entry points don't follow different entry points and use the same code.

Not sure how viable this would be.

Comment 6

[Gregory Szorc [:gps]]

We can't reliably contact the pusher because the LDAP account associated with the hg.mozilla.org SSH connection doesn't necessary correlate to a working email. We do have Try push emails today... for the people that are lucky enough to have their LDAP account match a working email. Same goes for the author field in commits.

We just need to bite the bullet and rally around `mach try`. I'm toying with ideas that will remove `hg push` from how stuff is sent to Try. That's not to say Mercurial won't be involved (it will - somewhere).

Comment 7

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

Not sure if this is still wanted, given the age and change in developer workflows.
If it is wanted, we have fully moved to ./mach try, and we probably want to file a bug in Firefox Build System::Try.