Re: MPS: Win64 testers?

[Pip Cet <pipcet@protonmail.com>]

On Saturday, July 27th, 2024 at 16:09, Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de> wrote:
> Pip Cet pipcet@protonmail.com writes:
> > What is the state of Emacs CI generally? emba.gnu.org doesn't even appear to be reachable at this point...
> 
> emba.gnu.org is in a bad state I cannot fix myself. I've asked several
> times for help from people who are knowing GitLab better than I do. No
> response, unfortunately.

Oh. That's a pity. Were those requests public? If so, do you have a link?

Would switching to forgejo be an option, maybe? That _claims_ to be easy to set up, and it's also the platform I'm playing with right now; and there seems to be a strong focus on keeping the project free in more than the technical sense, which is what irritates me about gitlab.com.

(The SourceHut software is also free, but doesn't claim to be, and isn't, easy to set up.)

No idea whether resources for such experiments are available though, and I don't know about the use of GNU resources for CI for free reimplementations of non-free operating systems, either with a wholly free toolchain (Wine) or a decidedly non-free SDK (Android-based); my understanding is that any significant development work for macOS requires non-free Apple software and a developer's license that you have to pay for, so I assume that one's out of the question.

I can volunteer to look at things as a one-off effort, but can't take over any regular or recurring maintenance work at this point.

Pip