[IMPORTANT] Binary Factory & CI System Maintenance

[Ben Cooksley]

On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:57 PM sithlord48 <sithlord48 at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Can we get a process to build appimages?

This needs the tooling for it to be built first.

Given that Craft already has the majority of the infrastructure for
this, i'd suggest adding appimage support to it which should then make
adding support to the Binary Factory straight forward and efficient in
terms of resource utilisation.

Existing work on Appimages has tended to be application specific and
therefore not suitable for easy reuse (which Craft would solve)

Cheers,
Ben

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> On Mon, Sep 16, 2019 at 3:47 PM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:
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>> Hi all,
>>
>> As part of changes to help improve the capacity, capability and
>> security of the Binary Factory and CI system, i'm going to be
>> performing a rebuild of several of the physical hosts responsible for
>> performing builds on the CI system.
>>
>> Following these changes, signing operations for Flatpak and Android
>> builds will have been shifted away from the machines responsible for
>> handling the actual builds, and the system will have an additional
>> machine added to handle builds.
>>
>> This will also pave the way for the build process for Snaps being
>> brought to the Binary Factory (although there are other issues which
>> may hold up the delivery of that due to excessive requirements imposed
>> by the Snap tooling)
>>
>> During this time however, the overall capacity of the system may be
>> reduced and the capability to perform some builds may be unavailable.
>>
>> Should anyone have any upcoming releases that require the services of
>> the Binary Factory & CI system it would be appreciated if you could
>> please let me know so I can take that into account for scheduling the
>> various changes.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ben Cooksley
>> KDE Sysadmin