On 14-03-26 09:11 AM, Andrew Halberstadt wrote: > On 26/03/14 09:06 AM, Andrew Halberstadt wrote: >> On 26/03/14 12:19 AM, Gregory Szorc wrote: >>> Andrew: I'm curious if you or anyone else has given any consideration >>> into making it dead simple to change the config so only a subset of >>> tests will be active. e.g. I'd like to save automation resources and >>> filter my browser chrome jobs to tests under toolkit/mozapps/extensions. >>> This is now possible but requires modifying N config files under >>> testing/config/mozharness. Could we get that down to 1 or added to Try >>> syntax somehow? >> >> Releng (and I tend to agree with them) is very opposed to having one >> config affect multiple platforms (or at least multiple buildapps). Over >> time it tends to lead to messy and hard to follow configs. It also makes >> it harder in the case that you *do* only want to change a single >> platform. >> >> Another more practical reason for not doing this is that often different >> platforms have vastly different command lines (e.g b2g vs firefox vs >> fennec are all different). I can't really think of an intuitive way that >> lets us share common command lines while having different sets of >> configs for the uncommon ones. IMO editing N configs isn't that big of a >> deal.. but if you really wanted to on a project branch or something, I >> suppose you could create a "global" config and have the platform >> specific ones import it. If this scheme was sane and easy to understand, >> I could possibly be convinced to land it on m-c. >> >> Andrew > > To follow up, I wouldn't be opposed to having an empty global config > that is just there to make pushing to try easier but is not used on > production branches.
We should be able to make try be a different behaviour the same way that talos.json allows us to test different talos repositories or revisions. This is awesome. Well done! _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
