1805560 - Allow project members to trigger privileged tasks (UI tests) without creating a new pull request

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Release Engineering :: General, enhancement)

Description

[Jonathan Almeida [:jonalmeida]]

Today in firefox-android, if an external contributor puts up a pull request, we are able to run taskcluster to build as we normally would - this is already a big improvement, thank you!

There are some privileged tasks that we would like to run only when a project member triggers them. Similar to bors that has a command to try and build the pull request (bors try), having an option to tell taskcluster run ui-tests will trigger the equivalent of ui-test-arm-debug that is on fenix.

Comment 1

[Andrew Halberstadt [:ahal]]

There's a Taskcluster RFC on this here:
https://github.com/taskcluster/taskcluster-rfcs/blob/main/rfcs/0168-Trigger-Tests-Based-on-PR-Comments.md

Although maybe we can create an action that runs privileged tasks on contributor PRs in the meantime. The UX for triggering it wouldn't be quite as nice, but implementing this wouldn't be blocked on the Taskcluster team (or Releng learning how to implement it ourselves).

Comment 2

[Julien Cristau [:jcristau]]

Probably not too relevant after the merge into gecko, this is all controlled by mach try etc.