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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Retirement of Binary Factory
From:       Harald Sitter <sitter () kde ! org>
Date:       2024-02-19 0:22:32
Message-ID: CAEc+18HBE64cWjS=n_30FNbmckFNoiuDqAZ8RjFvy13ssHrJXQ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 10:23 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley@kde.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 2:58 PM Loren Burkholder <computersemiexpert@outlook.com> \
> wrote:
> > 
> > On Saturday, February 17, 2024 8:35:48 PM EST Ben Cooksley wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 10:26 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley@kde.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > The Binary Factory, alongside it's two build servers, and the Flatpak
> > > repository it provided at https://distribute.kde.org/ has now been
> > > decommissioned.
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Just last evening, I was downloading Filelight on a Windows machine. Due to the \
> > machine being rather ancient and slow, I ended up going for the direct binary \
> > download instead of the Microsoft Store download. The apps.kde.org page had me \
> > download from a Binary Factory link. As of right now, that link is still on \
> > https://apps.kde.org/filelight/, but it obviously doesn't work. I haven't checked \
> > the apps.kde.org source, but it seems that perhaps those URLs are automatically \
> > generated for each app, so it should be trivial to change or remove them.
> 
> 
> It would appear that Filelight has not yet enabled themselves for any form of \
> continuous delivery builds aside from Flatpak. See \
> https://invent.kde.org/utilities/filelight/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml?ref_type=heads
>  
> If Filelight contributors are still interested in supporting other platforms those \
> builds will need to be added.

I'm curious, why didn't you enable stuff for the things that were
previously building on binary factory?

On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 10:23 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley@kde.org> wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Feb 18, 2024 at 2:58 PM Loren Burkholder <computersemiexpert@outlook.com> \
> wrote:
> > 
> > On Saturday, February 17, 2024 8:35:48 PM EST Ben Cooksley wrote:
> > > On Sun, Feb 4, 2024 at 10:26 AM Ben Cooksley <bcooksley@kde.org> wrote:
> > > 
> > > The Binary Factory, alongside it's two build servers, and the Flatpak
> > > repository it provided at https://distribute.kde.org/ has now been
> > > decommissioned.
> > 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > Just last evening, I was downloading Filelight on a Windows machine. Due to the \
> > machine being rather ancient and slow, I ended up going for the direct binary \
> > download instead of the Microsoft Store download. The apps.kde.org page had me \
> > download from a Binary Factory link. As of right now, that link is still on \
> > https://apps.kde.org/filelight/, but it obviously doesn't work. I haven't checked \
> > the apps.kde.org source, but it seems that perhaps those URLs are automatically \
> > generated for each app, so it should be trivial to change or remove them.
> 
> 
> It would appear that Filelight has not yet enabled themselves for any form of \
> continuous delivery builds aside from Flatpak. See \
> https://invent.kde.org/utilities/filelight/-/blob/master/.gitlab-ci.yml?ref_type=heads
>  
> If Filelight contributors are still interested in supporting other platforms those \
> builds will need to be added. 
> > 
> > 
> > Are there other places that need this URL replaced as well? \
> > https://lxr.kde.org/search?%21v=kf6-qt6&_filestring=&_string=binary-factory.kde.org \
> > shows that there are a number of READMEs that still link to Binary Factory, and \
> > Krita has some CI stuff that still references binary-factory.kde.org, but I have \
> > a sneaking suspicion that there are binary-factory.kde.org links in KDE webpages \
> > and other repositories that aren't indexed by lxr.kde.org.
> 
> 
> I have a checkout of most website repositories on my local system and did a quick \
> grep which showed a variety of hits. Most of them were on README files that were \
> intended to show build status of the website itself. Those links would have been \
> broken for some time as websites were converted over a while ago. 
> Affected sites content wise includes:
> - develop.kde.org
> - digikam.org
> - haruna.kde.org
> - kaidan.im
> - kate-editor.org
> - kdeconnect.kde.org
> - kde.ru
> - kdevelop.org
> - kirogi.org
> - kmymoney.org
> - konversation.kde.org
> - krita.org
> - okular.kde.org
> - plasma-mobile.org
> - rkward.kde.org
> - umbrello.kde.org
> 
> 
> > 
> > 
> > - Loren
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Ben


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