Retirement of Binary Factory

[Thomas Baumgart]

On Sonntag, 18. Februar 2024 10:23:37 CET Ben Cooksley wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 2:58 PM Loren Burkholder <
> computersemiexpert at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Saturday, February 17, 2024 8:35:48 PM EST Ben Cooksley wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 10:26 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > The Binary Factory, alongside it's two build servers, and the Flatpak
> > > repository it provided at https://distribute.kde.org/ has now been
> > > decommissioned.
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Just last evening, I was downloading Filelight on a Windows machine. Due
> > to the machine being rather ancient and slow, I ended up going for the
> > direct binary download instead of the Microsoft Store download. The
> > apps.kde.org page had me download from a Binary Factory link. As of right
> > now, that link is still on https://apps.kde.org/filelight/, but it
> > obviously doesn't work. I haven't checked the apps.kde.org source, but it
> > seems that perhaps those URLs are automatically generated for each app, so
> > it should be trivial to change or remove them.
> >
> 
> It would appear that Filelight has not yet enabled themselves for any form
> of continuous delivery builds aside from Flatpak.
> See
> https://invent.kde.org/utilities/filelight/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml?ref_type=heads
> 
> If Filelight contributors are still interested in supporting other
> platforms those builds will need to be added.
> 
> 
> >
> > Are there other places that need this URL replaced as well?
> > https://lxr.kde.org/search?%21v=kf6-qt6&_filestring=&_string=binary-factory.kde.org
> > shows that there are a number of READMEs that still link to Binary Factory,
> > and Krita has some CI stuff that still references binary-factory.kde.org,
> > but I have a sneaking suspicion that there are binary-factory.kde.org
> > links in KDE webpages and other repositories that aren't indexed by
> > lxr.kde.org.
> >
> 
> I have a checkout of most website repositories on my local system and did a
> quick grep which showed a variety of hits. Most of them were on README
> files that were intended to show build status of the website itself.
> Those links would have been broken for some time as websites were converted
> over a while ago.
> 
> Affected sites content wise includes:
> - develop.kde.org
> - digikam.org
> - haruna.kde.org
> - kaidan.im
> - kate-editor.org
> - kdeconnect.kde.org
> - kde.ru
> - kdevelop.org
> - kirogi.org
> - kmymoney.org

KMyMoney fixed with https://invent.kde.org/websites/kmymoney-org/-/commit/215b802e

> - konversation.kde.org
> - krita.org
> - okular.kde.org
> - plasma-mobile.org
> - rkward.kde.org
> - umbrello.kde.org

Cheers

Thomas

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Regards

Thomas Baumgart

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