Hi all, Over the past number of years one of the tasks the Sysadmin team has worked on has been improving the overall maintainability of our systems, with a significant number of specialised cronjobs, exceptions and hidden linkages being eliminated.
That is with one great exception: api.kde.org and ebn.kde.org. Both of these are suffering from an extreme amount of digital bitrot and special casing and in general are now in a condition where I cannot say for certain whether it would be possible to replicate the setup on a new system without us experiencing some degree of breakage (some of which we may not discover until weeks/months afterwards). In addition, the current setup relies on an old-fashioned overnight reprocessing of all repositories, which is inefficient and resource expensive. A more modern approach would have the various projects api documentation generated on a delayed cycle from relevant branches as part of something like a CI job (but not part of the actual CI workflow itself). For this one, i'm not certain on the best path forward at this stage, however the current state of affairs cannot continue. We have tried over the past few years to find people to work on a replacement for the tooling involved, but alas we've yet to have success here. Thoughts anyone? Regards, Ben