That is interesting; my employer GeoCat has setup Jenkins on an azure
build server. So we should update that page.

(We do still lack a macOS build server.)
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Jody Garnett


On Dec 23, 2023 at 7:46:34 PM, sechelé delaruse <sech...@ataxlab.com> wrote:

> on the first day of christmas i noticed that this url
> https://docs.geoserver.org/stable/en/developer/installer/index.html
> contains the following content
>
> <snip>
> At the time the GeoServer project does not have financial resources and
> man power to stand up a Windows build server (if you can help with this,
> please contact the developer list)
> </snip>
>
> if this is no longer true please disregard
>
> if build server still required
>
>    - i happen to know that as an open source project the geoserver
>    project can run unlimited builds in azure devops. so can anyone else who
>    clones the repo in a public azure devops project
>    - after investigating the geoserver github actions i saw nothing
>    incompatible with triggering builds in azure devops in collaboration with
>    specific github actions
>    - the primary showstopper risk seems to revolve around headless
>    installation of nsis itself and its dependencies on azure build servers as
>    per
>       - extract the .DLL files (AccessControl.dll) and copy it to the
>       NSIS plugins directory usually
>       C:\Program Files\NSIS\Plugins\x86-ansi
>
>
> if build server still required and mitigations exist for installing nsis
> and dependencies on cloud build agents, i  offer to
>
>    - evaluate the full build process for the windows geoserver
>    - deliver a proof of concept of a suitable pipeline that runs in azure
>    devops
>
>
> please advice
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