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

[Ben Cooksley]

On Mon, Jan 10, 2022 at 3:53 AM Michael Reeves <reeves.87 at gmail.com> wrote:

> What is the status for MacOS builds?
>

No work is being made on those at this time, in large part because work is
focused on getting us off Jenkins currently.

Regards,
Ben


>
>
> Jan 9, 2022 4:34:38 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org>:
>
> 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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