797420 - move talos suite information to somewhere it may be consumed

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Release Engineering :: General, defect, P3)

Description

[Jeff Hammel]

Currently the talos suites run by buildbot and the associated
arguments thereto are defined in buildbot-configs:
http://hg.mozilla.org/build/buildbot-configs/raw-file/tip/mozilla-tests/config.py

However, this is not particularly programmatically consumable.  For
the hoary details, see
http://k0s.org/mozilla/hg/talosnames/file/277b167060e5/talosnames/api.py
for what needs to be done to consume this.  This should be consumable
by trychooser and scripts such as talos names.

Instead, this should be in some sort of data structure that may be
easily consumed.  JSON is probably a good choice.  I would argue that
this should go in mozilla-central so that it could ride the train, but
anywhere web accessible is fine with me.  I would probably put it in
testing/talos/talos.json .

Note that there has been some intention to fix this with mozharness.
But the need for this transcends mozharness: it needs to be done anyway.

Comment 1

[Chris AtLee [:catlee]]

I think there's another bug for something like this, but I can't find it.

Comment 2

[Aki Sasaki (not active)]

We have http://hg.mozilla.org/projects/cedar/file/default/testing/talos/talos.json for mozharness talos.