• This issue is blocking
• This issue is causing unreasonable pain

I believe the following conditions are incorrect:

• arcade/eng/common/templates/job/job.yml

  Line 174 in b40fa37

  - ${{ if or(eq(parameters.artifacts.publish.artifacts, 'true'), ne(parameters.artifacts.publish.artifacts, '')) }}:

• arcade/eng/common/templates/job/job.yml

  Line 195 in b40fa37

  - ${{ if or(eq(parameters.artifacts.publish.logs, 'true'), ne(parameters.artifacts.publish.logs, '')) }}:

• arcade/eng/common/templates/job/job.yml

  Line 137 in b40fa37

  - ${{ if or(eq(parameters.artifacts.download, 'true'), ne(parameters.artifacts.download, '')) }}:

Essentially, they imply the following: "Run the task if (argument == 'true' OR argument != '')" which is always true unless the argument is not specified at all. And this is super weird and unexpected. E.g., the following configuration still runs the tasks:

  jobs:
  - template: /eng/common/templates/jobs/jobs.yml
    parameters:
      artifacts:
        publish:
          artifacts: false
          logs: true
          manifests: false

Only after I have completely removed the entries, it worked as expected:

  jobs:
  - template: /eng/common/templates/jobs/jobs.yml
    parameters:
      artifacts:
        publish:
-         artifacts: false
          logs: true
-         manifests: false

I am pretty sure the conditions are meant to be the following: "Run the task if (argument == 'true' OR argument == '')" - i.e., run the task only if

• the argument isn't supplied - assume it's true, or
• the argument is true.

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