From kde-core-devel  Sun Sep 04 21:42:36 2022
From: Alexander Neundorf <neundorf () kde ! org>
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2022 21:42:36 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Cleaning up cdash.org integration, what to do, or any hidden usage still?
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Hi,

On Freitag, 2. September 2022 12:20:50 CEST Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> (cc: kde-devel for heads-up, please reply only to kde-core-devel).
> 
> we stumbled over some CTestConfig.cmake files in some of the KDE git
> repositories. Which seem to originate from a time where people worked on
> integration with cdash.org, that is a decade ago :)
> 
> It seems though this integration no longer is maintained:
> * no KDE projects seem listed on cdash.org anymore:
>   https://my.cdash.org/viewProjects.php?allprojects=1
> * the KDEUtilsNightly.cmake seems to have found no counterpart in the ECM
>   world. The only reference seen is the check for the presence of a
>   CTestConfig.cmake file and the inclusion of the CTest module in that case.
> 
> With KDE's deployment of first Jenkins and now Gitlab CI around the purpose
> of the integration with cdash.org also seems no longer needed, by what I
> understand?
> 
> So can we state that this cdash integration is officially no longer done,
> and thus we can clean up any traces of it, for clean and non-confusing data
> & code?

I think so.

> Are there any other things left to do to clean up this, besides the
> following?
> 
> T1) Remove any remaining CTestConfig.cmake files from KDE repos.
> 
> T2) Remove support in KDECMakeSettings for deal with CTestConfig.cmake
> files:
> https://invent.kde.org/frameworks/extra-cmake-modules/-/merge_requests/295
> 
> T3) Add a note on the respective Wiki page about being outdated:
> https://techbase.kde.org/Development/CMake/DashboardBuilds

sounds good, but I didn't check.

Thanks
Alex