897810 - Please add flag machine-state to the Release Engineering: Buildduty component

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Administration, task)

Description

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Release engineering needs to track the state of over 3500 machines. While all these machines may not be tracked directly in bugzilla at the outset, they end up in the Machine Management component when they need interaction. Since it could be releng, sheriffs, IT, or even developers (in the case of loan requests) filing or interacting with these bugs, releng would like a well-defined flag for machine-state that avoids the current hodge-podge of almost-correct (or non-existent) whiteboard entries.

Flag name: machine-state
Product: mozilla.org
Component: Release Engineering: Machine Management
Values: ---, on-loan, needs-reboot, needs-diagnostics, needs-reimage, needs-postimage, decommissioned

No restrictions on setting the flag.

'---' should be the default state.

Comment 1

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

We can get to this once we do the tracking flag migration away from custom fields in the backend (bug 880829). Right now we are hesitant to add any additional single-select fields because of the tracking flags.

Thanks
dkl

Comment 2

[:glob ✱]

is this field still required?

if so, please provide the new product/component, as the RelEng product didn't exist at the time this bug was filed.

Comment 3

[Chris Cooper [:coop] (he/him)]

Yes, we'd still like it, please.

The new Product: Component is Release Engineering: Buildduty.

Comment 4

[David Lawrence [:dkl]]

I have made the code change needed for this task and committed. When the change is live (maybe this week), then I can actually add the custom field using the Bugzilla UI. Setting myself to needinfo to remind me to do so.

Committing to: bzr+ssh://[e-mail]/bmo/4.2
modified extensions/BMO/lib/Data.pm
Committed revision 9186.

dkl

Comment 5

[:glob ✱]

The new custom field 'cf_machine_state' has been successfully created.