Latest AppImage download without GitHub account

[HybridDog]

Describe the bug

The Readme explains a way to download the latest AppImage from the build jobs, but it does not work unless the reader is registered and logged in at GitHub, which is not mentioned.

Head over to our list of AppImage build jobs. When you click on a job, you'll see a page with an "Artifacts" section that contains an "appimage" binary you can then download.

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. Log out from GitHub
2. Go to the mentioned link
3. Click on the first "workflow run result"
4. Scroll down to "Artifacts" and click on "appimage" next to the wireframe cube icon
5. Observe how "appimage" is not a link but only text which can be marked

Expected behavior The Readme could mention that downloading the build artifact requires a GitHub account or explain another way to download it.

Screenshots

Version Info (please complete the following information):

• Linux Kernel version: not applicable
• perf version: not applicable
• hotspot version (appimage? selfcompiled?): master
• if self-compiled hotspot, what version of elfutils: not applicable

Additional context Downloading the older AppImage from the releases webpage works without GitHub account.

[GitMensch]

There is no reasonable way to provide the Appimage on each CI build outside of the CI artifacts (which is needed for the download) - but it would definitely be useful to update the CI image on the release page from time to time, kind of "stable appimage" (which may be a new release).

As I personally see some issues [already worked on] that break the Disassembly view, I'd suggest to do that afterwards.

Another option is to run a nightly/weekly workflow to update the release as pointed out by @Kagami

- name: Release nightly
  uses: softprops/action-gh-release@v1
  with:
    prerelease: true
    name: nightly
    tag_name: nightly
    files: file.txt
    fail_on_unmatched_files: true

And instruct your users to download from https://github.com/OWNER/REPO/releases/download/nightly/file.txt Example here.

That file.txt will be updated on every commit, keeping single pre-release release without cluttering with other releases and latest stable release.

As a bonus it won't disappear if you don't commit for 90 days (as with artifacts).

With a similar example workflow on: https://github.com/kernelkit/infix/blob/main/.github/workflows/build.yml

[milianw]

we finally have a new stable release (https://github.com/KDAB/hotspot/releases/tag/v1.5.0). I would really like to see someone work on automated regular public continuous releases. I think @lievenhey is already looking into this.