Travis CI is no longer providing CI minutes for open source projects

Post by claytonjy » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 3:04 AM UTC

floatingatoll wrote: post #17

geerlingguy wrote: post #6

Many people are saying to those of us who _haven't_, for one reason or another, gotten completely off of Travis CI, "the writing was on the wall" or "you can't expect free forever." And I think they're missing the gravity of the situation—there were (and are still) a _ton_ of OSS projects out there that are configured to use Travis CI for their testing and build pipelines, and it's not free to switch to something els…

Are there GitHub CI integrations that offer payment integration, so that the submitter of the pull request can be charged for the costs of CI related to their pull request?

Post by klyrs » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 3:07 AM UTC

chrisseaton wrote: post #45

musicale wrote: post #24

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> Your project is NOT sponsored by a commercial company or organization and does NOT have paid employees > Your project does NOT provide commercial services (such as consulting or training) around the software, and does NOT distribute paid versions of the software Jetbrains should really take it to the next level and require all developers on your open source project to provide up-to-date proof of unemployment benefi…

I think you’re misunderstanding - you can have a job just the project you use JetBrains products for can’t be your job or anyone’s job.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 3:29 AM UTC

jrochkind1 wrote: post #8

Only a few weeks ago they wrote a letter ( https://blog.travis-ci.com/oss-announcement ) that said "Open source accounts, as always, will be completely free under travis-ci.com." Their home page at travis-ci.com still says: > Testing your open source projects is always 100% free! > Seriously. Always. We like to think of it as our way of giving back to a community that gives us so much as well. That is simply not what…

Post by tingletech » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 3:36 AM UTC

neves wrote: post #58

rpdillon wrote: post #41

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My previous company was on Travis, and as soon as I saw that Travis was purchased by private equity, I knew the downward spiral had begun and I recommended we move to something else. Not surprised that this is happening a couple of years later...my understanding is that private equity will tend towards slowing/stopping development after acquisition to cut costs/headcount, and then squeeze the remaining value from wha…

Are there any evidence of private equity providing benefits for society? Sometimes it looks like they have a inverse Midas hand, everything they touch putrefy.

Post by tmpz22 » Tue, Dec 08, 2020, 3:40 AM UTC

Uehreka wrote: post #35

jrochkind1 wrote: post #8

Only a few weeks ago they wrote a letter ( https://blog.travis-ci.com/oss-announcement ) that said "Open source accounts, as always, will be completely free under travis-ci.com." Their home page at travis-ci.com still says: > Testing your open source projects is always 100% free! > Seriously. Always. We like to think of it as our way of giving back to a community that gives us so much as well. That is simply not what…

I wonder how many people start out making pledges like that because they wish other companies would and they want to be the change they wish to see in the world. And they don’t realize that taking investor money means you no longer have the power to keep your promises even if you want to because you’re promising with other people’s money.