Task Attributes

Tasks can be filtered, for example to support “try” pushes which only perform a subset of the task graph or to link dependent tasks. This filtering is the difference between a full task graph and a target task graph.

Filtering takes place on the basis of attributes. Each task has a dictionary of attributes and filters over those attributes can be expressed in Python. A task may not have a value for every attribute.

The attributes, and acceptable values, are defined here. In general, attribute names and values are the short, lower-case form, with underscores.

kind

A task’s kind attribute gives the name of the kind that generated it, e.g., build or spidermonkey.

run_on_projects

The projects where this task should be in the target task set. This is how requirements like “only run this on autoland” get implemented.

Note

Please use this configuration. Running a job for all projects can quickly add up in term of cost while not providing any value for some projects.

run-on-projects can use either aliases or project names.

These are the aliases:

• integration – integration repository (autoland)

• trunk – integration repository plus mozilla-central

• release – release repositories (beta, release, esr) including mozilla-central

• all – everywhere (the default)

Project names are the repositories. They can be:

• autoland

• mozilla-central

• mozilla-beta

• mozilla-release

• mozilla-esr128

• … A partial list can be found in taskcluster/gecko_taskgraph/util/attributes.py

For try, this attribute applies only if -p all is specified. All jobs can be specified by name regardless of run_on_projects.

If run_on_projects is set to an empty list, then the task will not run anywhere, unless its build platform is specified explicitly in try syntax.

Note

As try pushes don’t use filter_for_projects by design, there isn’t a way to define that a task will run on try.

Note

A given task [taskA] may not respect run-on-projects if there another task [taskB] which is scheduled to run (such as via run-on-projects) which depends it [taskA]. Because by nature of TaskB running we must run TaskA.

See bug 1640603 as example.

run_on_hg_branches

On a given project, the mercurial branch where this task should be in the target task set. This is how requirements like “only run this RELBRANCH” get implemented. These are either the regular expression of a branch (e.g.: GECKOVIEW_\d+_RELBRANCH) or the following alias:

• all – everywhere (the default)

Like run_on_projects, the same behavior applies if it is set to an empty list.

task_duplicates

This is used to indicate that we want multiple copies of the task created. This feature is used to track down intermittent job failures.

If this value is set to N, the task-creation machinery will create a total of N copies of the task. Only the first copy will be included in the taskgraph output artifacts, although all tasks will be contained in the same taskGroup.

While most attributes are considered read-only, target task methods may alter this attribute of tasks they include in the target set.

build_platform

The build platform defines the platform for which the binary was built. It is set for both build and test jobs, although test jobs may have a different test_platform.

build_type

The type of build being performed. This is a subdivision of build_platform, used for different kinds of builds that target the same platform. Values are

• debug

• opt

test_platform

The test platform defines the platform on which tests are run. It is only defined for test jobs and may differ from build_platform when the same binary is tested on several platforms (for example, on several versions of Windows). This applies for both talos and unit tests.

Unlike build_platform, the test platform is represented in a slash-separated format, e.g., linux64/opt.

unittest_suite

This is the unit test suite being run in a unit test task. For example, mochitest or cppunittest.

unittest_category

This is the high-level category of test the suite corresponds to. This is usually the test harness used to run the suite.

unittest_try_name

This is the name used to refer to a unit test via try syntax. It may not match unittest_suite.

unittest_variant

The configuration variant the test suite is running with. If set, this usually means the tests are running with a special pref enabled. These are defined in taskgraph.transforms.test.TEST_VARIANTS.

talos_try_name

This is the name used to refer to a talos job via try syntax.

raptor_try_name

This is the name used to refer to a raptor job via try syntax.

job_try_name

This is the name used to refer to a “job” via try syntax (-j). Note that for some kinds, -j also matches against build_platform.

test_chunk

This is the chunk number of a chunked test suite. Note that this is a string!

test_manifests

A list of the test manifests that run in this task.

image_name

For the docker_image kind, this attribute contains the docker image name.

nightly

Signals whether the task is part of a nightly graph. Useful when filtering out nightly tasks from full task set at target stage.

shippable

Signals whether the task is considered “shippable”, that it should get signed and is ok to be used for nightlies or releases.

all_locales

For the l10n and shippable-l10n kinds, this attribute contains the list of relevant locales for the platform.

all_locales_with_changesets

Contains a dict of l10n changesets, mapped by locales (same as in all_locales).

l10n_chunk

For the l10n and shippable-l10n kinds, this attribute contains the chunk number of the job. Note that this is a string!

chunk_locales

For the l10n and shippable-l10n kinds, this attribute contains an array of the individual locales this chunk is responsible for processing.

locale

For jobs that operate on only one locale, we set the attribute locale to the specific locale involved. Currently this is only in l10n versions of the beetmover and balrog kinds.

signed

Signals that the output of this task contains signed artifacts.

stub-installer

Signals to the build system that this build is expected to have a stub installer present, and informs followon tasks to expect it.

repackage_type

This is the type of repackage. Can be repackage or repackage_signing.

fetch-artifact

For fetch jobs, this is the path to the artifact for that fetch operation.

fetch-alias

An alias that can be used instead of the real fetch job name in fetch stanzas for jobs.

toolchain-artifact

For toolchain jobs, this is the path to the artifact for that toolchain.

toolchain-extract

Control whether toolchain should be automatically extracted after download. Default is true.

toolchain-alias

An alias that can be used instead of the real toolchain job name in fetch stanzas for jobs.

toolchain-env

Extra environment variables that will be set on the worker when fetching this toolchain.

toolchain-command

An extra attribute used to communicate to the build system bootstrap code the command used to build the toolchain. This is useful because the commands are formatted differently depending on the worker type, sometimes inconveniently to parse afterwards.

always_target

Tasks with this attribute will be included in the target_task_graph if parameters["tasks_for"] is hg-push, regardless of any target task filtering that occurs. When a task is included in this manner (i.e it otherwise would have been filtered out), it will be considered for optimization even if the optimize_target_tasks parameter is False.

This is meant to be used for tasks which a developer would almost always want to run. Typically these tasks will be short running and have a high risk of causing a backout. For example lint or python-unittest tasks.

shipping_product

For release promotion jobs, this is the product we are shipping.

shipping_phase

For release promotion jobs, this is the shipping phase (build, promote, push, ship). During the build phase, we build and sign shippable builds. During the promote phase, we generate l10n repacks and push to the candidates directory. During the push phase, we push to the releases directory. During the ship phase, we update bouncer, push to Google Play, version bump, mark as shipped in ship-it.

Using the “snowman model”, we depend on previous graphs if they’re defined. So if we ask for a push (the head of the snowman) and point at the body and base, we only build the head. If we don’t point at the body and base, we build the whole snowman (build, promote, push).

artifact_prefix

Most taskcluster artifacts are public, so we’ve hardcoded public/build in a lot of places. To support private artifacts, we’ve moved this to the artifact_prefix attribute. It will default to public/build but will be overridable per-task.

artifact_map

For beetmover jobs, this indicates which yaml file should be used to generate the upstream artifacts and payload instructions to the task.

release_artifacts

A set of artifacts that are candidates for downstream release tasks to operate on.

batch

Used by perftest to indicates that a task can be run as a batch.

enable-full-crashsymbols

In automation, full crashsymbol package generation is normally disabled. For build kinds where the full crashsymbols should be enabled, set this attribute to True. The full symbol packages will then be generated and uploaded on release branches and on try.

skip-upload-crashsymbols

Shippable/nightly builds are normally required to set enable-full-crashsymbols, but in some limited corner cases (universal builds), that is not wanted, because the symbols are uploaded independently already.

upload-generated-sources

generated-sources are normally only uploaded to S3 for shippable/nightly builds. This attributes turns that on for other builds such as macosx before unification.

cron

Indicates that a task is meant to be run via cron tasks, and should not be run on push.

cached_task

Some tasks generate artifacts that are cached between pushes. This is a dictionary with the type and name of the cache, and the unique string used to identify the current version of the artifacts. See taskgraph.util.cached_task.

cached_task:
    digest: 66dfc2204600b48d92a049b6a18b83972bb9a92f9504c06608a9c20eb4c9d8ae
    name: debian7-base
    type: docker-images.v2

eager_indexes

A list of strings of indexes to populate before the task ever completes. Some tasks (e.g. cached tasks) we want to exist in the index before they even run/complete. Our current use is to allow us to depend on an unfinished cached task in future pushes. This avoids extra overhead from multiple tasks running, and can allow us to have our results in just a bit earlier.

required_signoffs

A list of release signoffs that this kind requires, should the release also require these signoffs. For example, mar-signing signoffs may be required by some releases in the future; for any releases that require mar-signing signoffs, the kinds that also require that signoff are marked with this attribute.

update-channel

The update channel the build is configured to use.

mar-channel-id

The mar-channel-id the build is configured to use.

accepted-mar-channel-ids

The mar-channel-ids this build will accept updates to. It should usually be the same as the value mar_channel_id. If more than one ID is needed, then you should use a comma separated list of values.

openh264_rev

Only used for openh264 plugin builds, used to signify the revision (and thus inform artifact name) of the given build.

code-review

If a task set this boolean attribute to true, it will be processed by the code review bot, the task will ran for every new Phabricator diff. Any supported and detected issue will be automatically reported on the Phabricator revision.

retrigger

Whether the task can be retriggered, or if it needs to be re-run.

disable-push-apk

Some GeckoView-only Android tasks produce APKs that shouldn’t be pushed to the Google Play Store. Set this to true to disable pushing.

disable-build-signing

Some GeckoView-only tasks produce APKs, but not APKs that should be signed. Set this to true to disable APK signing.

enable-build-signing

We enable build-signing for shippable, nightly, and enable-build-signing tasks.

run-visual-metrics

If set to true, will run the visual metrics task on the provided video files.

skip-verify-test-packaging

If set to true, this task will not be checked to see that MOZ_AUTOMATION_PACKAGE_TESTS is set correctly based on whether or not the task has dependent tests. This should only be used in very unique situations, such as Windows AArch64 builds that copy test packages between build tasks.

geckodriver

If non-empty, declares that the (toolchain) task is a geckodriver task that produces a binary that should be signed.

rebuild-on-release

If true, the digest for this task will also depend on if the branch is a release branch. This will cause tasks like toolchains to be rebuilt as they move from e.g. autoland to mozilla-central.

local-toolchain

This toolchain is used for local development, so should be built on trunk, even if it does not have any in-graph consumers.

artifact-build

This build is an artifact build.

This deliberately excludes builds that are implemented using the artifact build machinery, but are not primarily intended to short-circuit build time. In particular the Windows aarch64 builds are not marked this way.

maven_packages

List of maven packages produced by the build.

supports-artifact-builds

If false, the task requires a compiled build and will not work with artifact builds.

primary-kind-dependency

For tasks that were derived from a group of dependencies, this attribute denotes which dependent kind is the primary one.

Typically this is set by the taskgraph.transforms.from_deps transforms.

snap_test_type

For Snap tests tasks, used to disambiguate task label

snap_test_release

For Snap tests tasks, used to disambiguate task label by distro release

build-type

For android builds, the type of build: typically debug, nightly, beta, release.

component

For android-components builds, the name of the component.

apks

For android apk build tasks, the list of apk artifact names.

aab

For android aab build tasks, the aab artifact names.

release-type

For android builds, the type of release: typically debug, nightly, beta, release.

shipping-product

For android tasks, the shipping product: Fenix, Focus, or an android-component name.

artifacts

For android-components tasks, a dictionary mapping extensions to artifact names.

is_final_chunked_task

Used by taskcluster.android_taskgraph.transforms.chunk to mark the last task in a chunk group.

legacy

Used by Fenix UI tests to select UI tests on legacy Android devices and API levels.

nightly-test

Used by Fenix browsertime tests to mark the task as part of the nightly-test graph.

screenshots

Used by Fenix UI tests to mark the task as part of the screenshots graph.

abi

Used by android browsertime tasks to track the abi of the product under test.

apk

Used by android browsertime tasks to track the path to the apk of the product under test.

test-manifests

A list of the test manifests that run in this task.

lull-schedule

Used by performance tasks to schedule them at a specified frequency in a best-effort method. Schedules them when the overall CI load is low for a given platform. Use “w” for weeks, “d” for days, “h” for hours, and “m” for minutes in a string like so to specify the scheduling frequency: 1d, 1w 4h, 2w 4d 1h.

this_chunk

Used by source tests to support chunking and specify a current chunk.

total_chunks

Used by source tests to support chunking and specify a total amount of chunks.