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If you have experience maintaining a GitLab CI runner on macOS, and you wish to contribute to building and testing GLib and GTK on macOS, please join the GNOME Infrastructure channel to help maintaining the macOS server provided by the GNOME Foundation, otherwise we will have to retire it. More details on Discourse: discourse.gnome.org/t/potentia

GNOME DiscoursePotential retirement of the macOS CI builder for GLib and GTKThe GNOME Foundation has been sponsoring a hosted macOS CI runner for a few years, but the admins are now planning to retire it for a couple of reasons: the hardware is getting long in the tooth (it’s still an x86_64 machine) it’s a shared bare metal environment, for licensing purposes (you can only virtualise macOS on an Apple machine running macOS), so CI pipelines compete for resources and tend to clobber each other unless the dependencies are shared or are completely isolated and never ins...
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To further clarify, since it seems that there is some confusion about it: this call for help is for maintaining the existing Mac CI runner used by GLib and GTK to build those projects on macOS in their respective CI pipelines.

Any offer of helping with macOS-specific code and builds are, of course, appreciated, but are independent of the topic at hand.

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Zygmunt Krynicki

@GTK Is the discussion happening on discourse? I'm certainly not an expert but I've been running gitlab runners on various systems, including macos.

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Emmanuele Bassi

@zygoon @GTK You can use Discourse, or join the channels on Matrix; the main issue is having people that understand macOS enough to be able to set up a shared CI runner and, more importantly, keeping it running…

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