Re: KDE Gear projects with failing CI (master + stable) (11 August 2026)

On 8/12/26 11:42 PM, Volker Krause wrote:
> On Wednesday, 12 August 2026 21:36:04 Central European Summer Time Nate Graham
> wrote:
>> It also breaks nightly Flatpak builds, since there's no nightly Flatpak
>> runtime yet.
> 
> How many of those do we really have though, and how many of those actually
> need unreleased Frameworks and can't also support the previous release?

Somewhere between zero and very few — because without a Flatpak runtime 
that includes master of Frameworks, apps with Flatpak manifests that 
want to depend on that is a literal an error condition, not just a bad idea.

My point is that we can't even consider making it potentially acceptable 
for apps to depend on master of Frameworks without a nightly master 
Flatpak runtime.


>> Though if we had that, the app contribution docs for a drive-by
>> contributor could be collapsed into "run this flatpak-builder command".
>> For the past few months I've been building and testing changes to KDE
>> apps by building them as Flatpaks, and it's actually been a really nice
>> experience overall.
> 
> Absolutely! Throwing new app contributors needlessly down the kdesrc-build
> rabbit hole is not an ideal experience, we can do a lot better. See attached
> screenshot as a sneak peek on an Akademy talk demo that'll hopefully work,
> pushing this even further :)

Sounds exciting!


Nate