1335915 - [tc-github] Use json-e to parameterize .taskcluster.yml

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Taskcluster :: Services, defect)

Description

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

Using json-e will make it a lot easier to produce exactly the desired task in .taskcluster.yml, without relying on data-munging by taskcluster-github.  Basically, we can make the whole webhook payload available to json-e, and the user can access whatever fields they would like.

We'll need some kind of gentle transition from the current templating schem -- maybe we just go from version 1 to version 2?

Comment 1

[Kyle Lahnakoski [:ekyle]]

You have a link to "json-e"?  Thank you!

Comment 2

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

https://github.com/taskcluster/json-e

Comment 3

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

One feature that will be important here is a way to reduce redundancy -- .taskcluster.yml files tend to repeat the same task boilerplate over and over, and users will want to be able to write that once and then generate lots of tasks.  I don't know what that would look like, but we can talk about ideas.

Comment 4

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

https://github.com/taskcluster/json-e/issues/112

Comment 5

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

I've started twiddling around with this, after https://github.com/taskcluster/mozilla-taskcluster/pull/116

Comment 6

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

This was deployed on Friday.

Comment 7

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

oh, right, this is tc-github.

Comment 9

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

I think this is done, right Irene?  A two-year-old-bug!

Comment 10

[[:owlish] 🦉 PST]

Yep, this is done!