1776440 - better classification for artifacts

Status: NEW

(Tree Management :: Treeherder: Frontend, enhancement)

Description

[[e-mail] (:bhearsum)]

Attachment: rough proposal for artifacts ui

Taskcluster tasks produce artifacts that are for various purposes, including but not necessarily limited to:

• Artifacts intended for developers or QA (eg: target.installer.exe from repackage-signing tasks)
• Artifacts produced in one task that are consumed by another (eg: setup.exe from Windows build-signing tasks)
• Task metadata (eg: live.log, chain-of-trust.json)

At the moment, all of these are grouped together in Treeherder's Artifacts tab, which can result in confusion. This happened recently when setup.exe files from a plain build-signing Task were mistook for useful installers - and ultimately resulted in a patch getting backed out because of it.

It would be great if Treeherder could separate these to minimize this confusion. My suggestion would be to add this extra metadata on all artifacts, so that those who control the Tasks are in charge of classification -- and have the UI simply use that.