Retirement of Binary Factory

[Ben Cooksley]

On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 10:26 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley at kde.org> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> For some time now we have been steadily working on getting our ability to
> build everything that was previously built on the Binary Factory being
> built on Gitlab.
>
> I'm now very happy to advise that it is now possible to perform all of
> those builds on Gitlab (and depending on how far you configure it, go even
> further than what was being done before). This transition to Gitlab builds
> should also ensure we use resources more efficiently, as builds will only
> take place when code actually changes (rather than every day - which is
> what the Binary Factory did).
>
> As such, with Gitlab now able to replace it, I am scheduling the Binary
> Factory for decommissioning in 2 weeks time.
> Projects relying on signed binary builds of their project should therefore
> look into migrating their builds immediately and without delay.
>

The Binary Factory, alongside it's two build servers, and the Flatpak
repository it provided at https://distribute.kde.org/ has now been
decommissioned.


>
> The legacy Flatpak repository at http://distribute.kde.org/ will also be
> retired as part of this. Anyone still using this should migrate to the
> per-application Flatpak repositories at https://cdn.kde.org/flatpak/
> noting that if you are adding the repository directly you may need to add
> the KF6 runtime first.
>
> Redirects will not be provided from the older Binary Factory URLs as there
> is no successor URL for many of the Binary Factory endpoints.
>
> Details on how to setup your project with binary builds can be found at
> https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-utilities/-/tree/master/gitlab-templates
>
> For enabling signed builds of your project builds please see
> https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-utilities/-/blob/master/signing/README.md.
> Please note that signing is only permitted on mainline repository branches
> marked as protected within Gitlab (which is only done for release branches
> such as master and release/24.04). If your project is missing from the
> configuration please submit a merge request to sysadmin/ci-utilities.
>
> Signing services include publishing Android builds to our F-Droid
> repositories (https://cdn.kde.org/android/), Flatpak repositories (
> https://cdn.kde.org/flatpak/), as well as the staging publishers that
> upload draft submissions to Google Play and the Microsoft Store (for those
> applications using those) - in addition to the actual signing of binaries
> (supported for Linux Flatpak, Android, Windows and Mac).
>
> With regards to macOS, pending fixes in the upstream tooling we use
> (rcodesign) the signing service will also be able to provide notarised
> builds.
> See https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-notary-service/-/merge_requests/38
> for more information on that.
>
> At this time signing of Appimages to allow use with AppimageUpdate is not
> supported, however to my knowledge this is not used anywhere in KDE outside
> of Krita.
>
> Similarly, work on changing our GItlab configuration to protect tags will
> be needed before we can perform signed builds on tags (see
> https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/project/protected_tags.html).
> Based on the documentation this should not be too difficult however so
> i'll add that to the list to look into sooner rather than later (as making
> this change also has implications for the CI system in general)
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
>
>
Cheers,
Ben
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