Create a public APT repository for `code-server`
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Assessment
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Newbie friendliness
- 38/100
- Issue type
- Feature
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Activity status
- Quiet
- Tech stack
- github-actions, yaml
- Domain
- devops, documentation, release
Research direction
Review the existing release.yaml GitHub Action and the linked Buildkite Package Registry setup, then inspect the coder.com installation documentation. Determine how the existing .deb archives should be uploaded and how the repository and API token would be configured; done means releases publish to the APT repository and the docs reference it.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Description
The .deb packages for code-server are super handy, but users still have to manually update them by downloading and installing the fresh package for each release. It would be really nice to have an APT repository so this was handled automatically. (See #2600 and #2582 for some earlier discussion of the topic.)
Since the .deb packages are already being built, this should be quite easy to do with a host like Buildkite Package Registry (fka PackageCloud), which has a "free for open source" option. To test this out, I set up a registry with a personal fork, and it seems to work exactly as expected: https://buildkite.com/organizations/andrew-gainer/packages/registries/code-server/packages/019dee3f-dd00-7900-bf17-b6a98bedf40c
I'd be happy to help set this up for the main coder/code-server repo, but it's not something that can be done with just a pull request. The steps required would be:
- Set up a Buildkite organization for Coder with the "free for open source" plan and connect it to the
coder/code-serverrepo - Mint a Buildkite API token and add it as a repo secret
- Add code to the
release.yamlGitHub action to upload the.debarchives to Buildkite - Update the coder.com docs to reference the new repo
If y'all are interested in getting this set up, I'm happy to help!
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Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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