Bug 360701

You took a look at the section "Umbrello continuous build status" at  https://umbrello.kde.org/developers.php ?

No, i didn't see that section. I checked it now and only see links to Jenkins where i can see status of the builds, but i can't see where i can download binaries generated from these builds. Am i missing something?

(In reply to Xtra Coder from comment #2)
> No, i didn't see that section. I checked it now and only see links to
> Jenkins where i can see status of the builds, but i can't see where i can
> download binaries generated from these builds. Am i missing something?
jenkins installs an deploys binaries, see for example https://build.kde.org/job/umbrello%20Applications-16.04%20stable-qt4/PLATFORM=Linux,compiler=gcc/2/consoleText.
Maybe it is possible to get binaries on request or to customize/extend jenkins to be able to fetch binaries from a build.

(In reply to Ralf Habacker from comment #3)
> (In reply to Xtra Coder from comment #2)
> > No, i didn't see that section. I checked it now and only see links to
> > Jenkins where i can see status of the builds, but i can't see where i can
> > download binaries generated from these builds. Am i missing something?
> jenkins installs an deploys binaries, see for example
> https://build.kde.org/job/umbrello%20Applications-16.04%20stable-qt4/
> PLATFORM=Linux,compiler=gcc/2/consoleText.
> Maybe it is possible to get binaries on request or to customize/extend
> jenkins to be able to fetch binaries from a build.

I logged in to Jenkins and manually triggered a build of master, see
   https://build.kde.org/job/umbrello%20master%20latest-qt4/1/
bug it failed. The console output ends as follows:

19:44:47 Strings match run condition: string 1=[], string 2=[gcc]
19:44:47 Run condition [Strings match] preventing perform for step [Builder to mark whether executed]
19:44:47 Triggering umbrello master latest-qt4 » Linux,gcc
19:45:22 umbrello master latest-qt4 » Linux,gcc completed with result FAILURE
19:45:22 Finished: FAILURE

I cannot find how to configure the strings of the "run condition".

Problems with jenkins need  to be reported through https://sysadmin.kde.org/tickets/index.php

(In reply to Ralf Habacker from comment #5)
> Problems with jenkins need  to be reported through
> https://sysadmin.kde.org/tickets/index.php

Thanks, I did that and posted a ticket with subject "Umbrello - deployment of nightly build" and contents "Is it possible to download binaries (or rather, installations e.g. via tar file) produced by the nightly builds?"
The reply is as follows:
> The binaries produced by the CI system would be very specific to the CI system environment,
> and would require you use the same distribution, set of repositories, etc.
> Are you after particular platforms here?

Makes sense to me. Seems like an unlikely coincidence if the Jenkins build system's environment happened to match my own environment.

I'm not sure I understand what is "binaries produced by the CI system would be very specific to the CI system environment" ...

Firstly, I am, personally, interested in Windows binaries (x32 or x64). As far as I know, the only 'specific' binding windows binaries may have is linking to specific versions of shared DLLs (msvcrt.dll or similar). I do not see a problem with that (as the end user). 

Anyway, I expect binaries available here (http://download.kde.org/stable/umbrello/latest/) are not built "by hand". If this process is automated - same process can be executed on a nightly basis in Jenkins. It will keep all the same 'specific' requirements that are already published to end user.

I'm not much familiar with *nix systems. Most probably the same is applicable to *nix releases too.

It appears that Windows binaries are less environment sensitive.
With Linux, attention must be paid to the exact versions of libc.so, libgcc.so, libstdc++.so, and many more.
Here is a further reply from the sysadmin.kde.org ticket that I had opened:

> Unfortunately we don't provide Win32 binaries at this stage - the system only performs CI
> compilation for Linux at this stage.
> 
> Adding Windows (and Mac) support to the CI is something which is on the todo list, but has
> yet to be implemented i'm afraid. We therefore can't do much to help them here until that is
> implemented. When it is done, we will probably consider publishing the binaries.

(In reply to Xtra Coder from comment #7)
> I'm not sure I understand what is "binaries produced by the CI system would
> be very specific to the CI system environment" ...
> 
> Firstly, I am, personally, interested in Windows binaries (x32 or x64). As
> far as I know, the only 'specific' binding windows binaries may have is
> linking to specific versions of shared DLLs (msvcrt.dll or similar). I do
> not see a problem with that (as the end user). 
There are several KDE, Qt and win32 based libraries required to get umbrello to run. See the portable package a [1].

> Anyway, I expect binaries available here (http://download.kde.org/stable/umbrello/latest/) [1] are not built "by hand".
They are cross compiled on the openuse build service (see https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/windows:mingw:win32/mingw32-umbrello and packaged with https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/windows:mingw:win32/mingw32-umbrello-installer). 
Releasing package at the mentioned url are performed by a KDE  "tarball move request"  sysadmin ticket.

Ok, as far as I see - "nightly binaries" are doable, but current infrastructure is not ready for this and some actions are already in "TODO" list. So - I'll just will keep waiting.

Nightly Windows binaries of umbrello git master builds are at
https://binary-factory.kde.org/job/Umbrello_Nightly_win64/