jarmstrong Reporter
	Description • 11 years ago

I use a shell script to submit try jobs from the command line.
The script will accept aliases and expand them into lists of machines.
   -p androids, -p b2gs etc


A recent submission did not expand args properly and inlined alias strings within the comma separated list:
 try: -b do -p [androids,b2gs,]linux64 -u mochitest-1,mochitest-6,mochitest-7,mochitest-8,mochitest-gl -t none


Result of which was the job processed on a single platform:
   https://tbpl.mozilla.org/?tree=Try&rev=b3c05171dc77

The problem was caught early enough to cancel and resubmit on the correct platforms.  Probably should add logic in the push/commit hook for try that will validate some/most 'try:' arguments and fail when invalid content is detected.

Current behavior can be problematic when people attempt to build/test on a specific set of platforms but only receive partial results because some were excluded due to typos.