Upcoming CI changes - transition to VM based CI

[Albert Astals Cid]

El dimarts, 10 de juny del 2025, a les 9:31:55 (Hora d’estiu d’Europa 
central), Ben Cooksley va escriure:
> > > My concern is that if we keep pushing out terminating support those
> > > projects will just keep deferring their porting.
> > > Note that Frameworks 6 released in Feb 2024, so they've had 15 months so
> > > far to port which is a pretty reasonable amount of time.
> > 
> > As something to compare to, we kept shipping kdelibs4 based apps in KDE
> > Gear
> > until April 2018 when KDE Frameworks 5.0 was released in July 2014.
> > 
> > That's almost 4 years, I am not asking for that, it's not that 15 months
> > is a
> > reasonable time or not, it's that we never set a line on the sand and thus
> > it's easy to keep postponing it because it's not "there yet". So I would
> > propose setting a date in the sand when we will stop supporting Qt5 stuff
> > in
> > our CI system. My proposal would be the end of 2025.
> 
> I'd like it to be a bit earlier than that if we can - say 30 September.
> Quite a few applications have made it off since the initial effort to start
> pulling the plug and another bunch have been pulled out in response to the
> recent effort to remove Qt 5 CI support.

If we announce it *now*, i guess 30 of September would be ok-ish...

... but once we've (you've really) done the work to support it, is it a hassle 
to keep it on for 3 months more?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> > > Can we at least go through and remove Qt 5 CI from anything that has
> > 
> > ported
> > 
> > > over and is running both currently?
> > > Given we're now unable to build them we should probably declare KHTML
> > > and
> > > KJS unmaintained and archive them as well.
> > 
> > I guess we can live with that.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   Albert
> 
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
> > > > Cheers,
> > > > 
> > > >   Albert
> > > 
> > > Regards,
> > > Ben
> > > 
> > > > > > Cheers,
> > > > > > 
> > > > > >   Albert
> > > > > 
> > > > > Regards,
> > > > > Ben
> > > > > 
> > > > > > > Please let me know if there are any questions on the above.
> > > > > > > 
> > > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > > Ben