On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 10:27 PM Ben Cooksley <bcooks...@kde.org> wrote:
> Hi all, > > As those of you who watch and work on Frameworks repositories will be > aware, we've just rolled out the first set of native Gitlab CI builds. > > These builds are at this time Linux only, but do include support for both > regular branch builds as well as for Merge Requests. It is anticipated that > Windows, FreeBSD and Android builds will follow in the near future - there > are a few extra things we need to get completed first before they can be > rolled out. As part of carrying out the build the scripts will also gather > Code Coverage and Code Quality information using gcovr and cppcheck > respectively, and this will be made available to you within the Gitlab > interface. > > With regards to availability to projects outside Frameworks, projects that > depend only on Frameworks (and no other KDE project) may enable CI for > their project by adding the necessary .kde-ci.yml and .gitlab-ci.yml files > to their repositories. I anticipate that once the necessary changes have > been made to the "seed" jobs used to provision the initial artifacts it > should be possible for all projects to rollout support (although i'd like > to add ccache support to the system to ensure larger project builds > complete promptly first). > > If anyone would like to help out with getting the seed jobs ready please > let me know as this is definitely something that the community can assist > with (and will also help with easing the rollout of Windows, FreeBSD and > Android builds). > As an update to this, work on FreeBSD and Android support is progressing well and should be made available within the next week all going well. > For those projects that do go ahead with enabling Gitlab CI support please > ensure you add the necessary .kde-ci.yml file beforehand, specifying in it > the necessary Dependencies, as well as the necessary Options your project > needs to customise for their build. A list of all the possible values in a > .kde-ci.yml file can be found at > https://invent.kde.org/sysadmin/ci-utilities/-/blob/master/config-template.yml#L10 > > For those projects that are not yet able to enable the system, it is > strongly encouraged that you go ahead and get the .kde-ci.yml files ready > in your repository now - especially if other projects depend on your > project. This will allow the rollout of the CI system to those projects to > proceed much more smoothly (otherwise we will need to get them added to > those projects which have other projects depending on them). > > Please note that this new infrastructure replaces all existing Gitlab CI > jobs we provided in the initial testing phase, and those should be removed > (much like how I did for Frameworks) when switching to the new setup. > > Thanks, > Ben > Cheers, Ben
