1277837 - Tier-1 Taskcluster jobs shouldn't group themselves under [tc]

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1386857

(Firefox Build System :: Task Configuration, task)

Description

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

We replaced the Linux debug buildbot jobs with Taskcluster jobs recently. One quirky side effect I noticed today is that Taskcluster jobs still group themselves under `tc()`. This means that for Linux debug, even the build job will get collapsed into a `tc(+N)` group, which we don't do for any other platform where we build via buildbot. I think this is sort of confusing and we should fix it. We might want to preserve this for tier-2 build jobs until they get promoted to tier-1.

This happens in the base build task:
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/4d63dde701b47b8661ab7990f197b6b60e543839/testing/taskcluster/tasks/build.yml#61

I don't know if that's easily overridable from other task definitions that inherit that.

Comment 1

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal]]

According to this comment, a ? works:
https://dxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/testing/taskcluster/tasks/builds/mulet_linux.yml#49

Though it looks like most child build tasks specify groupSymbol anyway.. could probably just remove it from the base config.

Comment 2

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

Let's do this.. the tc(..) groups keep confusing people.

Comment 3

[(not currently active) Ted Mielczarek]

(In reply to Dustin J. Mitchell [:dustin] from comment #2)
> Let's do this.. the tc(..) groups keep confusing people.

Now that basically all of our Tier-1 jobs are in TC, there's no reason to keep this grouping.