Announcing General Availability of Gitlab CI for Linux, FreeBSD and Android

[Ben Cooksley]

On Fri, Dec 3, 2021 at 8:53 AM Michael Reeves <reeves.87 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Where are the artifacts being uploaded to? They don't seem to show in
> gitlab. In particular the coverage report is of interest to me.
>

They are uploaded to Gitlab itself, but as reports so only some parts of
Gitlab's functionality show them with a download option.
You should be able to find the necessary links on the Pipelines page for a
project - https://invent.kde.org/sdk/kdiff3/-/pipelines

Cheers,
Ben


> On Sat, Nov 27, 2021 at 1:31 PM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> As mentioned in the subject, i'm happy to announce the general
>> availability of native Gitlab CI for all KDE projects for Linux, FreeBSD
>> and Android.
>>
>> For those who would like to get their projects setup, please ensure you
>> first have a .kde-ci.yml file in the root of your repository specifiying
>> the necessary dependencies of your project and any options your project
>> requires to build and conduct tests. You can find a list of all the
>> supported options at
>> https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-utilities/-/blob/master/config-template.yml
>> along with guidelines on how to specify your dependencies.
>>
>> Please note the following when specifying the branch to use:
>> - @same should be used for projects which are released together and which
>> follow the same branching scheme (release/21.08 for instance)
>> - @stable should be used to refer to the current stable branch
>> - @latest should be used to refer to the current development branch
>>
>> While the system has been seeded based on the current dependency
>> metadata, if this was incorrect for your project then you may find that the
>> system gives an error that it cannot locate the dependency when first run.
>> If this happens to you then please look into submitting a merge request to
>> https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-management/-/tree/master/seeds so
>> that this dependency can be included in future seed runs.
>>
>> Once you have your .kde-ci.yml file setup you can then setup your
>> .gitlab-ci.yml to include the appropriate platform files from
>> https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-utilities/-/tree/master/gitlab-templates
>> .
>>
>> Please note that currently this is limited to builds for master and other
>> development branches, as the necessary metadata for @stable is not yet
>> fully in place. This information can be found at
>> https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/repo-metadata/-/blob/master/branch-rules.yml
>> - it would be appreciated if developers could please look into updating
>> this for their projects at the same time.
>>
>> With regards to Windows builds, they should become available soon - there
>> is still some infrastructural work that needs to be completed on our Docker
>> image, as well as the facilities to build those images which needs to be
>> completed prior to these being available. We will be transitioning to using
>> Docker for our Windows builds which will hopefully eliminate many of the
>> issues we've had with lingering processes that have plagued the Jenkins
>> system.
>>
>> With the availability of these Gitlab builds we are now entering the
>> twilight phase of our Jenkins based system at build.kde.org so it is
>> imperative that developers setup their CI using the new tooling. For those
>> using the legacy Jenkins system with Gitlab (using the templates at
>> https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-tooling/-/tree/master/invent) these
>> will be discontinued at the same time as build.kde.org, so you will need
>> to migrate to the new tooling as well.
>>
>> Please let us know if you have any questions on the above.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben
>>
>
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