Retirement of Binary Factory

[Harald Sitter]

On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 10:23 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
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> On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 2:58 PM Loren Burkholder <computersemiexpert at outlook.com> wrote:
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>> 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:
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>> > The Binary Factory, alongside it's two build servers, and the Flatpak
>> > repository it provided at https://distribute.kde.org/ has now been
>> > decommissioned.
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>> Hi all,
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>> 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.
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> 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
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> If Filelight contributors are still interested in supporting other platforms those builds will need to be added.

I'm curious, why didn't you enable stuff for the things that were
previously building on binary factory?

On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 10:23 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> 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.
>
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>> 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.
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> 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
> - konversation.kde.org
> - krita.org
> - okular.kde.org
> - plasma-mobile.org
> - rkward.kde.org
> - umbrello.kde.org
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>> - Loren
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> Cheers,
> Ben