build stage: configuration not intuitive

[bchenSyd]

I can understand how build stage is current designed. It's just not intuitive. the structure suggests that one stage can only contain one script, and if you want more than one scripts in one stage, you need to define a new script following current stage, whilst it should be defined within the stage, isn't it?

would below configuration makes more sense?

job:
  stage:
  - name: stage1
    jobs:
    - script 1
    - script 2
  - name: stage2
    jobs:
    - script 3
    - script 4

[maticzav]

Actually, as far as I understand this, you can specify multiple jobs, just by inserting them without stage property.

# From the examples
jobs:
  include:
    - stage: test
      script: ./test 1
    - # stage name not required, will continue to use `test`
      script: ./test 2
    - stage: deploy
      script: ./deploy

So the equivalent of your code, should, I suppose, be:

jobs:
  include:
    - stage: stage1
       script: script1
       script: script2
    - stage: stage2
       script: script3
       script: script4

I do agree though, that it could be done better. I love how circleci implemented this using deployment property instead of jobs and assigning specifics there.

deployment:
  production:
    branch: production
    commands:
      - cmd1
      - cmd2

[bchenSyd]

I dont thinks its a valid ymal file

jobs:
  include:
    - stage: stage1
       script: script1
       script: script2
    - stage: stage2
       script: script3
       script: script4

[maticzav]

sorry, correct yaml file:

jobs:
  include:
    - stage: stage1
      script: script1
      script: script2
    - stage: stage2
      script: script3
      script: script4

[cytopia]

Valid, but script: script2 will overwrite script: script1 and script: script4 will overwrite script: script3

[joshk]

As Stages is now released and GA, I'm going to close this issue.

If you have any feedback on improvements we should consider, please feel free to add a discussion in our new Community forum: https://travis-ci.community/c/product

Happy building

Josh