594496 - Generate unique id for a push in schedulerdb/statusdb

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 570814

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Anamaria Stoica [:anamarias]]

Generate unique identifiers every time a push starts. This way all build requests (builds, unittests and talos) will have the same id. The tests will inherit this id from the build triggering them.

All build will have the same unique id for all platforms.

The id should be unique across masters.

Right now there is no way to tell if the tests generated by a nightly build run belongs to an actual build started around the same time or to a nightly build. For example this build run http://cruncher.build.mozilla.org/buildapi/reports/revision/mozilla-central/4b879b793eb6 contains extra build requests from a nightly build, and displays 271 buildrequests instead of ~167.

Problems:
* forced builds wont get the unique ID right now
* rebuilds --> same id