Master moves to Qt 6 this Wednesday

[christoph at cullmann.io]

On 2023-09-12 09:57, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Dienstag, 12. September 2023 00:44:20 CEST Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>> El dilluns, 11 de setembre de 2023, a les 23:44:01 (CEST),
>> christoph at cullmann.io va escriure:
>> > On 2023-09-11 21:42, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
>> > > Nothing else is broken but kate (this is my past 3 weeks status report
>> > > speaking, current point in time may be different), so no you're not
>> > > responsible to fix all global CI breakeages, you're responsible of
>> > > fixing kate
>> > > CI.
>> >
>> > that is not very fair and if the CI is disabled build failures will
>> > creep in.
>> 
>> CI job is still there so no build failure will creep in, it's only 
>> that
>> Windows/Qt6 failing tests are not considered a fail anymore, so 
>> basically
>> the same status as before but now it's marked as passing instead of
>> failing.
> 
> Maybe you notice failing tests in green jobs. I certainly don't. For me
> passing CI means everything is alright including all automatic tests.
> 
> On the other hand, I do agree that unstable tests are highly annoying
> especially for "external" contributors who don't know about them and 
> try to
> figure out if they did something wrong in their MR.
> 
> And then there are tests that start failing for no apparent reasons in 
> the
> project because they are caused by external changes, e.g. upstream ABI
> breakages. A project maintainer has little to no influence on this and 
> I agree
> with Christoph that it's unfair to blame the project and its 
> maintainers for
> this. There's no good solution for this, but failing CI hopefully at 
> least
> keeps those cases on the maintainers' radars.
> 
>> Once the tests are passing again the change can be put back to 
>> consider
>> Windows/Qt6 failing tests a failure of the job.
> 
> I have prepared a draft MR for this, so that we can more easily see 
> when the
> tests are passing again:
> https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/1298

People fixed the ci, Volker enabled the tests again ;)

https://invent.kde.org/utilities/kate/-/merge_requests/1299

But I must confess without Albert's ping I would have not pinged others, 
therefore thanks for that. I should be more proactive in the future when 
I see global stuff breaks.

Greetings
Christoph


> 
> Regards,
> Ingo