Re: Tier-1 for Linux 64 Debug builds in TaskCluster on March 14 (and more!)

On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 4:24 PM, Xidorn Quan <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Fri, May 20, 2016 at 8:16 AM, Selena Deckelmann <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
> > Closing out this thread - we made Linux 64 Debug builds Tier 1 mid-April,
> > and last week we turned off the related buildbot jobs.
> >
> > All Linux 64 Debug builds and tests now happen exclusively in
> TaskCluster!
> >
> > Thank you all the teams and individuals that contributed to getting this
> > done! We NI'd quite a few people throughout Platform on test and build
> > system errors, and we appreciated all of the attention and help.
> >
> > *Project update:*
> > We're now working steadily toward getting all remaining Linux builds and
> > tests into TaskCluster and to Tier 2, and Windows builds to Tier 2 in
> > TaskCluster by the end of the quarter. We're also alpha testing OS X
> tests
> > on data center hardware using TC workers.
> >
> > We've also started supporting a few smaller projects, in addition to a
> few
> > groups that have migrated their builds and tests to TaskCluster. Those
> > projects are still at an experimental level of support, but we're open to
> > discussing support with any teams interested in building with us. We're
> > primarily able to support pushes to try and Github users "out of the
> box."
> >
> > We've got a dashboard to track progress under development that we'll
> share
> > with everyone at London.
> >
> > Meanwhile, the project team meets weekly on Thursdays and keeps an
> updated
> > Trello board here: https://trello.com/b/asIJ2pGC/taskcluster-migration
> >
> > Questions? Please get in touch! irc:selenamarie or email or schedule a
> > meeting.
>
>
> There are several issues with TC:
> 1. Try syntax cannot control TC tasks,
> 2. I cannot retrigger any TC task.
>

I've seen the TC code for parsing Try syntax and deriving scheduling from
it. And I've retriggered TC tasks from Treeherder. I reckon you are hitting
a bug or your claim is outdated.