Incoming availability of Windows CI for Gitlab and deprecation of build.kde.org

[Ben Cooksley]

Hi all,

Over the past week substantial work has meant that we now have a
successfully compiling seed job for Frameworks on Windows under Gitlab.

This is a significant step on the road to announcing general availability
for Windows CI, which I expect projects that use Frameworks only should be
able to begin enabling in the coming week (there are a few finishing
touches i'd like to make first)

If your project makes use of Windows CI currently (or would like to begin
doing so) and has non-Frameworks dependencies it would be appreciated if
you could please reply with a list of those KDE projects you use so we can
keep them in mind while working on the seed jobs for Independent Releases
and Release Service.

Following this we will be able to make Windows CI generally available on
Gitlab for projects to adopt as needed, and as this represents the
migration of the final platform over to Gitlab this will also come with an
EOL announcement for build.kde.org and it's corresponding infrastructure.

If your project has not yet migrated to Gitlab native CI for any platform
then you should do so *immediately* and without delay. Projects making use
of legacy jobs on Gitlab (which will have references to sysadmin/ci-tooling
instead of sysadmin/ci-utilities and will not have a .kde-ci.yml file) are
not using Gitlab native CI and need to take action.

If you have tooling which interacts with resources provided by build.kde.org
(including build-artifacts.kde.org and the repository sysadmin/ci-tooling)
then please contact Sysadmin as soon as possible so we can discuss what the
best steps are for you to minimize disruption. My understanding is that
this includes apps.kde.org as well as the Android SDK Docker image.

Following the completion of this the dependency metadata located in
sysadmin/repo-metadata should be considered unmaintained and no longer in
use. We will remove this information in due course to ensure only a single
source of truth (being the .kde-ci.yml files now included in repositories).
It is expected that this will require updates to kdesrc-build.

Should anyone have any questions on the above please let us know.

Thanks,
Ben Cooksley
KDE Sysadmin
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