Expand variables in job names

Travis CI Discussions & Feedback Feature Requests
1

It would be useful to have variables in job names expanded. This would allow to automatically label jobs with some useful info depending on the job setup:

- &test
  name: Unit tests (PHP ${TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION})
  php: 7.2
  script: phpunit
- <<*test
  php: 7.3

This should result in two jobs labelled Unit tests (PHP 7.2) and Unit tests (PHP 7.3).

2

This is very hard, if not impossible, to accomplish. The reason is that the jobs must be configured up front. $TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION is defined for the build script at the run time, so it is not available for job configuration.

3

Yeah, makes sense. So I guess there’s nothing which can be done about this. But thanks for having a look.