[Buildbot-devel] evaluation of WithProperties under a step containing a doStepIf

[Dustin J. Mitchell]

On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:59 PM, Jared Grubb <jared.grubb at gmail.com> wrote:
> Would you mind filing a trac about this? I personally think your initial
> expectation of how it works is better than how ti really does work, and it
> would be fairly easy to fix, I think. And in the alternative, there may be
> someone else that can explain why it was done like this and shouldnt be
> fixed.

I think it's better to have the properties rendered when doStepIf
runs.  There are adequate means with property rendering to make them
take a value even when data is missing.  I think it would be more
confusing to have doStepIf be unable to access its renderable step
attributes.

Dustin