Cannot define patches for properties that have been changed in newer versions

[gsquared94]

From a user report on slack, consider the patch:

  patches:
     - op: add
        path: /deploy/helm/releases/0
        value:
          name: docs
          namespace: documentation
          chartPath: ./documentation/helm
          remote: false
          values:
            image: docs

This is consistent for skaffold API version skaffold/v1 but in newer versions value property of the helm deployer has been renamed to artifactOverride. This patch fails to get applied as it's not upgraded to the latest version properly unlike the regular Pipeline objects do.

[tejal29]

@gsquared94 if you are not planning to work on this soon, shd we decrease the priority?
This issue is out of SLO

[j2udev]

Any word on this? This bug makes it so we cannot advise our users to upgrade their Skaffold CLI without it being a breaking change (we utilize patches pretty heavily). This basically makes it so the latest CLI version is incompatible (patches specifically concerning schema changes) with the last "stable" schema version (v1)

[tejal29]

I will bring this up to team's attention by adding it to our Sustainability milestone.

[tejal29]

unfortunately this will not be part of this v1.27.0 release. We are going to take a look at redeisning profiles in skaffold v3 config.
We will probably take a look then