Plasma CI Health Check (September 28, 2026)

[Ben Cooksley]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2026 at 12:49 PM Kristen McWilliam <kristen at kde.org> wrote:

> Please work on fixing CI that is failing in master, I will remove/disable
> any on their 4th week failing. It is very important that CI is passing.
>
> • 82 monitored repos
> • 3 failing CI in master
> • 2 configured for auto-repeating tests
> • 95% of repos configured to require passing tests
>
> Good news: 4 repos fixed
>
> Bad news: 1 new repo failing, 2 repos still failing
>
> *Very bad news*: kde-gtk-config is on its 5th week failing (1 week extra
> allowance due to Akademy); the failing job has now been disabled with
> https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kde-gtk-config/-/commit/07f322d922f25a1a8d47042bf7360e35173322bd
> .
>
> plasma/kwin - NEW
>     https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kwin/-/jobs/5083523
>     suse_tumbleweed_qt611:
>         kwin-testPointerInput (Failed)
>         kwin-testSlidingPopups (Timeout)
>
> plasma/kde-gtk-config - 5th week
>     https://invent.kde.org/plasma/kde-gtk-config/-/jobs/5081881
>      freebsd150_qt611:
>          > ld: error: /usr/lib32/libz.so is incompatible with
> /usr/lib/crt1.o
>
> plasma/plasma-mobile - 3rd week
>     https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-mobile/-/jobs/5081955
>     alpine_qt611:
>         > CMake Error at CMakeLists.txt:96 (find_package): Could not find
> a configuration file for package "KWin" that is compatible with requested
> version "6.7.90".
>

Plasma as a broader project needs to have a discussion around what it wants
to support on mobile platforms, and what sort of toolchain / C runtime it
will support there.
Alpine is intended for those that need to ensure support is maintained for
musl, which is more minimal that the BSD C or glibc implementations present
on FreeBSD and Linux normally.

If Plasma Mobile as an effort needs musl support, then the parts of Plasma
that the mobile stack requires need to have Alpine jobs added.

This job is failing because KWin lacks an Alpine job, but KWin is a good
part of the way up a dependency stack that means a good number of Plasma
repos would need to be Alpine enabled to make that work.

It should be noted that adding additional computational capacity to our
Alpine jobs is not possible, as Hetzner does not currently have ARM
hardware available to rent, and very few in the way of other providers make
ARM available as an option (and where they do it is cost prohibitive)

>
>
>
> Auto-retrying tests:
>     • kwin
>     • plasma-desktop
>
>
> KDE CI Dashboard:
> https://ci-healthcheck-5e5c80.local-kde.org/
>
> --
> Cheers,
>   Kristen
>
> Cheers,
Ben
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