Be (semi)official

[majiang]

Official D Download page points dlanguage/dmd in DockerHub, but dlang2/dmd-circleci here seems better maintained. Is there any plans PR to dlang.org to point this, or even make this official?

[wilzbach]

Well, just make a PR to dlang.org and then I think we can easily change the link. I'm aware of the unmaintained dlanguage packages too.
Well, ideally we should move these scripts to one of the main repositories, s.t. they can get the automated DockerHub builds and there doesn't need to be this nightly cron job approach.

I looked once into making official D docker images for Docker Hub and IIRC that would require a lot of work as they require each release to be signed and basically have someone on call if anything breaks. Also, in most of my use cases I just use a Busybox docker image as base image and then copy the binary into the container.

The main reason this repo exists is because the docker images that CircleCI shipped had a broken libc, thus we needed our own CircleCI image for DMD. I haven't checked for a while if the issue still exists, but presumably this is fixed now and the only advantage is that we save the ten seconds of downloading the DMD binaries with the installer script (though in sum we probably loose time because our DMD image is not very popular and thus not in the cache of many of their workers and needs to be downloaded every time).

[wilzbach]

BTW if people felt more comfortable with this being in dlang-community, I would be open to moving it there.

CC @andre2007 @skoppe

[skoppe]

I don't mind either way. I am using them daily myself.

+1 for updating the link on the download page.

[dgellow]

It looks like the download page has been updated

(that's from current https://dlang.org/download.html)

[dgellow]

Regarding having an official docker image, the process is described here: https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/official_images/#creating-an-official-image.

And more details in the two dedicated github repositories (mentioned in the above link):

• https://github.com/docker-library/official-images
• https://github.com/docker-library/docs

I don't think that I understand the full process, but from what I get it would be enough to create a Pull Request or just an issue on both repositories with an official image, and see how it goes from there?

I haven't found anything regarding the need for an on-call person, @wilzbach is that an information you got from the docker team? If yes, what does that imply exactly?