1288368 - Pick an easier to differentiate colour for selected jobs in "add new jobs" mode

Status: NEW

(Tree Management :: Treeherder, defect, P3)

Description

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Bug 1284911 gave us the capability to trigger jobs even if those were missing in the original try push syntax. This works great now, but when selecting the jobs it is very hard to spot which of those will actually be triggered. Personally I do not see any visual difference.

Comment 1

[Kalpesh Krishna [:martianwars]]

:whimboo,
Could you elaborate on this please? I see two possible meanings of this.

1. There are too many job symbols on the screen (due to TaskCluster jobs) and this is making it hard to choose your jobs.
2. Since some jobs have dependencies, you need to select the jobs which are needed by the jobs you wish to schedule.

If the issue is (2), you need not worry. TaskCluster will make sure that any subset of jobs that you select are optimized and scheduled with all its dependencies. Let me elaborate a few use-cases.

Let test X depend on build Y.

Case 1: None of the jobs have been scheduled originally - Select just X. Y will automatically be scheduled. If you select both X and Y, the same thing will happen. Y will not be scheduled a second time

Case 2: Y has been scheduled originally - Select just X. TaskCluster will optimize Y and not reschedule it. In case you want a repeated build, schedule both X and Y. Y will be re-run.

Does this help?

Comment 2

[Henrik Skupin [:whimboo][⌚️UTC+1]]

Oh, it's simply about the text color used here. Selected jobs are not distinguishable from not selected ones for me. Maybe that should be a treeherder ui related bug?