Current Situation:

• Our build process is one of the processes pieces of the Wikibase Suite Team.

Goal:

• Streamline the code
• Review tool dependencies, research alternatives
• Update related documentation
• Make sure everybody is aware how this process works

Acceptance Criteria:

• The team agrees that the build process works for us and cannot identify major flaws in it that need immediate fixes
• Remaining issues are collected in tickets

[optional] Notes:

• This is the overarching "epic" ticket.
• Some of the questions we started with:
  • Where do we create official builds? Locally? Github Actions? Docker Hub? Selfhosted builder?
  • Which tools do we use to facilitate the build? docker build? Shell scripts? Both? wikiman+pacman?
  • How do we allow builds of cutting edge? (T340228)
  • How do we patch sources for building? Do we want to have custom patches at all? (T341450)
  • How do we make our builds more reproducible (T340226)
  • How can we automate as many parts of the build in order to automate the release process? (T343433)

[optional] Open Questions:

• none atm