Master moves to Qt 6 this Wednesday

[Albert Astals Cid]

El diumenge, 10 de setembre de 2023, a les 20:18:58 (CEST), 
christoph at cullmann.io va escriure:
> On 2023-09-10 19:41, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > El diumenge, 10 de setembre de 2023, a les 13:55:54 (CEST),
> > 
> > christoph at cullmann.io va escriure:
> >> Hi,
> >> 
> >> given the planned schedule
> >> 
> >> https://cullmann.io/posts/kf6-release-plan/
> >> 
> >> the next release for master branch will be Qt 6 based.
> > 
> > FWIW it would be great if you fix the Windows CI not to fail.
> > 
> > It's been failing for 3 consecutive weeks, if it still fails this
> > Tuesday i
> > will remove that CI once I send the weekly KDE Gear CI status email.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I can not fix that.
> 
> If you look at the history, this just started to fail without any change
> to that repo.
> 
> In most cases it goes away with a new full cache build.
> 
> If worked here
> 
> https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/commit/c8fad91ccd47b57c1c1039c496a6b
> 99b5f5e3220
> 
> And with
> 
> https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/commit/4041ef2956fceb4335243ed680c27
> 4d79082f66b
> 
> Even the most trivial test crash.
> 
> Naturally I can disable all tests, but then I will never see if that
> recovers again.


That is your problem.

Right now you have any single person that proposes a MR against kate wondering 
how their change broke CI, when it didn't, that's not acceptable for a 4 week 
(and in your words, "infinite" since you don't know what's wrong) time frame.

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> Tests like that crash:
> 
> https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/blob/master/apps/lib/autotests/urlin
> fo_test.cpp?ref_type=heads
> 
> Greetings
> Christoph
> 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> >   Albert
> >> 
> >> I will switch over master to Qt 6 only this Wednesday.
> >> 
> >> Let's make the release in February a good one.
> >> 
> >> We can still fix API in frameworks!
> >> 
> >> Greetings
> >> Christoph