Upcoming CI changes - transition to VM based CI

[Sune Vuorela]

On 2025-06-03, Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
> Not sure why we're wanting to monitor for compilation on an Ubuntu LTS
> specifically, would have thought that was something best watched by our
> Appimage CD builds. Those are currently performed on a SLES image.

The purpose is to test that one can do application development on a
not too new released Linux without having to build the entire stack
from Qt and up.
It builds with distribution provided Frameworks and Qt, rather than what
our CI does: master or something close to master.

The choice of Ubuntu I think is slightly random and could probably be
changed to something else from RedHat, Debian or Suse without upsetting
any one, but it should still using packages for everything.
I guess the selection was Ubuntu due to whatever whoever did it
initially felt most comfortable with.

/Sune