Prepare for 1.0 release

[luzpaz]

This is a catch-all meta-ticket for readying the Snap package for the upcoming 1.0 release

• Create or modify a 1.0RC branch for testers
• Address any pending open tickets
  • Preparing for Qt6 #19
  • OpenCamLib missing in the snap package. #116

CC @chennes @adrianinsaval

[luzpaz]

@furgo16 any interest in helping this along ?

[furgo16]

@luzpaz to the measure of my capabilities, sure. How can I help?

[luzpaz]

@furgo16 can you test the edge build if I attempt to fix #116 ?

[furgo16]

I'm already on the edge channel, but not sure which build I'm supposed to install. Where's the PR for that? Was it just built locally and manually dropped into the edge channel[^1]? Or how should it be installed otherwise?

[^1]: If so, I'd not advise not doing this, as it could be very confusing to users if there is breakage that cannot be traced to actual code.

@luzpaz

Update: if I understand it correctly, this has not been done yet. Let me know when the change is ready for testing. Happy to help if I can.

[furgo16]

Also another task on this issue should probably be to update OCT to the same version that will be shipped with 1.0.

[chennes]

I have synchronized stable with master, so the latest release candidate should match the build used for the weeklies.

[furgo16]

@chennes thank you. snap info freecad reports:

channels:
  latest/stable:    0.21.2         2024-01-28  (908) 855MB -
  latest/candidate: 1.0-g60a25135  2024-09-18 (1141) 823MB -
  latest/beta:      0.22-g58b3d021 2024-07-28 (1090) 800MB -
  latest/edge:      1.1-g758674d4  2024-09-18 (1140) 823MB -

Which looks good. The only thing that caught my eye is that the beta channel seems to have stopped updating at some point. If it's supposed to be automatically updated every week from the master branch, it the relese available there should be 1.1-#########.

[luzpaz]

Just kickstarted promite-to-beta action. Let see if it updates correctly

[luzpaz]

@chennes promote-to-beta is still pulling from master and not main.

/usr/bin/git checkout --progress --force -B master refs/remotes/origin/master
Reset branch 'master'
branch 'master' set up to track 'origin/master'.

Source: https://github.com/FreeCAD/FreeCAD-snap/actions/runs/11180161727/job/31081302946#step:2:61

[chennes]

@chennes promote-to-beta is still pulling from master and not main.

Is it pulling the snap repo? It's still called "master" here.

[furgo16]

Just kickstarted promite-to-beta action. Let see if it updates correctly

That seemed to work:

channels:
  latest/stable:    0.21.2        2024-01-28  (908) 855MB -
  latest/candidate: 1.0-g3d63fc6c 2024-10-01 (1154) 794MB -
  latest/beta:      1.1-g7a37ea9b 2024-10-04 (1155) 823MB -
  latest/edge:      1.1-g7a37ea9b 2024-10-04 (1155) 823MB -

On a different note: is there really a need for the beta channel? It's effectively an automated weekly snapshot of edge without further testing or guarantee to stability. Would users not be better off using edge?

I don't have a strong opinion on this, I just feel it might reduce maintenance overhead (and potentially confusion, since beta is effectively edge-weekly).

[luzpaz]

I don't see any extra overheard, honestly.
To rephrase, it's the FreeCAD 'weekly build' for Snap packages.