1332300 - Document similarities/differences between .travis.yml and .taskcluster.yml

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Taskcluster :: Services, defect, P5)

Description

[Brian Stack [:bstack]]

07:04:38 <bstack> if taskcluster-github is hard enough to set up that we need to be walking people through the process, we need to fix it :p
07:05:43 <catlee> should make it understand .travis.yml
07:06:03 <bstack> -_-
07:06:18 <bstack> honestly I would kinda like that :p
07:07:29 <catlee> or a .travis.yml -> taskcluster.yml translator
07:09:56 <bstack> at the very least we should have a page in the docs that says "X part of .travis.yml becomes Y part of .taskcluster.yml"
07:12:13 — bstack wanders off to bugzilla to make a bug

Comment 1

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

Brian, we should probably figure out if this is a good idea.  Can we ever be "a better travis than travis" (to paraphrase Mark Mayo)

Comment 2

[Brian Stack [:bstack]]

Yeah... this is just way at the bottom of my priority list unfortunately. Maybe this would be a good mentored bug though?

Comment 3

[Sudipt Dabral [:sudipt]]

I would like on work on this ! Kindly assign me this !

Comment 4

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

Sounds good! The documentation is now in https://github.com/taskcluster/taskcluster under ui/docs.

Comment 5

[Sudipt Dabral [:sudipt]]

Thank you ! Will start working on it!

Comment 6

[Sudipt Dabral [:sudipt]]

Kindly assign this bug to some other contributor as I am currently working on this . In future if no one takes it I would to work on that.

Comment 7

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

Sounds good, thanks! I think this one will take a fair bit of research and experimentation, anyway.

Comment 8

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

I think a good place to start with this will be to experiment with some "test" projects in both Travis (.travis.yml) and using Taskcluster (.taskcluster.yml). Try a few different languages. You might also look at how some open-source projects you've encountered use Travis. If you have questions about using .taskcluster.yml that aren't answered in the docs, owlish can help out.

Comment 9

[Sudipt Dabral [:sudipt]]

I thought something similar to take few task and run them on both travisCI and taskcluster and will try to differentiate how the output differs in both ! I guess one such that uses both taskcluster.yml and travis.yml is azure entities

Comment 10

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Sudipt: are you still working on this?

Comment 11

[Vishakha Nihore]

Where do we need to store the similarities or show the similarities between the Travis and Taskcluster YML ?

Comment 12

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

I think this would be a page in the manual somewhere.

Comment 13

[Vishakha Nihore]

I need to add a new page under docs/manual comparing the Travis and TaskCluster CI . Correct me if I am going wrong ?

Comment 14

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

Yes, but the hard part is figuring out what to put in that page..

Comment 15

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

This depends on some deeper market analysis. And maybe a fresh approach to the GitHub integration.