Custom Task controller for testing

[lbernick]

In order to write better integration/e2e tests for custom Tasks, it would be useful to have a controller that watches for Runs of some kind we just use for testing, and install this controller when running e2e tests. This controller could do any of:

• wait indefinitely
• set the status to "succeeded"
• set the status to match some boolean succeeded/failed set in the spec.

This controller shouldn't be packaged with Tekton releases.

[jerop]

planning to reuse https://github.com/tektoncd/experimental/tree/main/wait-task for this

[XinruZhang]

/assign XinruZhang

[XinruZhang]

Thanks for writing the issue Lee! I may need some extra clarifications:

set the status to match some boolean succeeded/failed set in the spec.

Do you mean we define some boolean fields in the spec and set those fields in status as what are set in the spec.

This controller shouldn't be packaged with Tekton releases.

Will codes under test/ be packaged with Tekton release?

[XinruZhang]

Hi @lbernick what do we need for the wait infinitely? Is the current wait-task controller enough?

[lbernick]

This was just a suggestion of what we could write the controller to do-- I was just brainstorming simple behaviors that are easy to understand for testing. It really depends on what tests we want to add and what controller behavior would be most helpful for those tests. It seems to me like the wait task has given us what we need? So I'm going to close this as completed in #5332.