Travis CI's new pricing plan threw a wrench in my open source works
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Re: Travis CI's new pricing plan threw a wrench in my open source works
#2> I just spent the past 6 hours migrating some of my open source projects from Travis CI to GitHub Actions
Man. Sounds like my personal hell.
I’ll never understand how people motivate themselves to run projects. When I think about it I just envision doing a bunch of crap like that, dealing with issues people file, etc etc. No thank you.
Re: Travis CI's new pricing plan threw a wrench in my open source works
#3Pretty much any time there's an acquisition of a company, followed by a firing of a significant fraction of the engineering staff, one should run away from it.
Sucks though for Travis CI users, I used it in the past and it worked well.
Re: Travis CI's new pricing plan threw a wrench in my open source works
#4> For almost a decade, Travis CI made it possible for me to build—and maintain, for years—hundreds of open source projects.
Then what about paying for it? The service is definitely very valuable to this person.
Re: Travis CI's new pricing plan threw a wrench in my open source works
#5I think everyone should move from Travis CI, especially private repos. Idera bought the project that has no future, and it wants to get the money back. It won't get any better.
Idera has fired a lot of Travis CI engineers, and your private repositories are now at risk. They can save some extra money on security.
Re: Travis CI's new pricing plan threw a wrench in my open source works
#6We had been paying ~$500/month for the open-source project (https://dvc.org) even before this new pricing model, and migrated to GitHub Actions recently- works like a charm. The only issue that we have now is Windows builds- machines on GH have a bit less resources, but it's good for us to optimize it anyway.
Re: Travis CI's new pricing plan threw a wrench in my open source works
#7> For almost a decade, Travis CI made it possible for me to build—and maintain, for years—hundreds of open source projects. Then what about paying for it? The service is definitely very valuable to this person.
This. If I had a cloud hosted CI tool, I would gladly allow open source projects to use it. But they would be lowest priority and there would be limitations on how often builds could happen and/or volume of contributions.
Large corporate backed opensource projects should absolutely be paying for tools like Travis CI. Just because it's open source doesn't mean there isn't money floating around.
It's not super hard to rent a VPS or Physical Server somewhere and spend a few hours setting up <insert ci tool of your choice).
Re: Travis CI's new pricing plan threw a wrench in my open source works
#8Hey Jeff,
This is hitting me hard, too. I hope this is the right moment for me to pipe up and say this:
I always just do the minimum with these CI integrations to get my shell script to run. I am grateful for the free minutes they offer open source projects - but any of the deeper integrations, the advanced automation?
No, thanks.
It's not like the other developers who use what I write have any more motivation than I do. No one wants to learn the custom setup steps, not even for the "biggest" of the bunch. (Is that still Github? Who knows? I don't.)
Oh, and if or when I migrate away from a CI system, like right now... Good thing I just kept it simple, you know?
Even for builds that target Windows, I just run a shell script.
I get it that Node and Rust builds really benefit from the advanced features. Anyone care to comment - is it as portable as a shell script?
Re: Travis CI's new pricing plan threw a wrench in my open source works
#9I've been using Travis on a bunch of my opensource projects and was wondering why builds were getting queued for ~a day before they'd run, I guess I got my answer. :/
I don't really want to lock myself into GH actions (ideally, I wouldn't be on GH at all), does anyone have any suggestions for alternatives? I don't mind paying some money, but the almost $1K/year for Travis' lowest tier is about an order of magnitude more than I can justify. I've also got plenty of compute laying around if anyone has suggestions for something self-hosted.
Re: Travis CI's new pricing plan threw a wrench in my open source works
#10I've been using Travis on a bunch of my opensource projects and was wondering why builds were getting queued for ~a day before they'd run, I guess I got my answer. :/ I don't really want to lock myself into GH actions (ideally, I wouldn't be on GH at all), does anyone have any suggestions for alternatives? I don't mind paying some money, but the almost $1K/year for Travis' lowest tier is about an order of magnitude m…
Have you looked into CircleCI?