Will the change to taskcluster indexes affect mozregression?
On Tue, Mar 26, 2019 at 2:56 PM Justin Wood <jw...@mozilla.com> wrote: > > Hey Everyone, > > tl;dr I landed "shippable builds" [1] to autoland, and I'll assume it > sticks. This replaces Nightly and PGO for most job types for desktop jobs. > Expect to see tests and builds in treeherder reflecting this, and no longer > seeing most PGO platforms or Nightly platforms available for your pushes. > > Longer story is that we are replacing all nightlies and current pgo builds > with 'shippable' variants. These combine what we do for PGO and Nightlies > into one job type, with the main goal of consolidating build types, and > simplifying the build configurations. We will not be changing Fennec build > types at this time > > This work mirrors in part what we did with opt->pgo tests [2] to keep our > overall test load down and does move osx on push to shippable (previously > was an opt build) and linux32 testing to shippable (was previously also on > an opt variant). > > This will obsolete many of the taskcluster routes you have come to expect, > and instead using shippable indexes. We have made some efforts to preserve > old indexes where possible, but If you are using taskcluster indexes in any > of your own code, I'd love to know where and for what purpose, so we can > document it going forward. > > Future work this unlocks is the ability to do "Nightly Promotion" which > should reduce the cost of Nightly CI and greatly speed up the turnaround > time for Nightly builds on mozilla-central. And once we are promoting > builds from the mozilla-central push to Nightly users, then we will truely > be testing against what we ship, so a net win for our code quality as well. > > There will also be some future work to cleanup some of the code in the > taskgraph code itself, to remove confusing code paths that mixed 'nightly' > build types along with the 'nightly' cadence of a released product. As well > as work to remove the temporary transitional index routes I tried to add. > > Feel free to find me in IRC #ci or on slack at #firefox-ci if you have any > questions or concerns. > > Thank You, > ~Justin Wood (Callek) > > [1] > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.planning/JomJmzGOGMY/vytPViZBDgAJ > [2] > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/0dYGajwXCBc/4cpYrUMyBgAJ > _______________________________________________ > dev-platform mailing list > dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
