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Re: Travis CI acquired by Idera

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Post by BeeOnRope »

lars_francke wrote: post #48
jorams wrote: post #46

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While I agree with you that the homepage doesn't do a good job explaining what Circle CI is to someone unfamiliar with CI, your criticism of the video doesn't make much sense to me. The video has a voice-over explaining what Circle CI does, and includes subtitles for when you don't have sound.

That's true. But if all the information is contained in the text. Why not make it a text I can read at my own pace instead of forcing me to watch it through a video at no additional benefit.

For what it's worth, this video is an ad - I have seen it (at least the first five seconds of it) at least 20 times prior to youtube videos [1].

So I guess they wanted a YouTube add, so it needed video and once they had paid to make that said hey why not stick it on our homepage? Or something like that.

It could have also gone the other way: as a useful video describing how things works, and then it got a second life as an ad - but the former path seems more likely.

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[1] I'm not sure why they are targeting me so heavily, but I see this ad more than any other, by a large margin.

Re: Travis CI acquired by Idera

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Post by jrochkind1 »

ethomson wrote: post #109
jrochkind1 wrote: post #92

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Curious if anyone has used Azure Pipelies with Rails projects and has a review. (Yeah, I know, all these CI things are hypothetically platform agnostic, but then there's reality, different platforms-under-test have different sorts of problems which become priorities for the CI platform to smooth out and make just work, or don't).

I think that you want somebody who's unbiased to answer this from their perspective (I'm a PM for Azure DevOps, so I'm pretty biased). But I've built out Azure Pipelines for many platforms, including Ruby and RoR with a lot of success. Feel free to drop me an email (my HN username @microsoft.com) and I can point you to some pipelines.

Cool. The trick is, I don't want to "build out a pipeline", I just wanna write a handful of lines in a single config file and be up and going, which is what travis has given me.

But Azure is def on my list to check out!

Re: Travis CI acquired by Idera

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Post by sytse »

emilycook wrote: post #102
jillesvangurp wrote: post #74

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We made a smilar decision in 2017. The reason was that our builds were stupidly slow because travis uses cheap instances. There was no option to fix that other by allowing more concurrent builds. Travis has no feature to actually allow users to have reserved instances of a particular type. Money was not the issue; the feature does not exist. Builds were taking up to 20 minutes and with multiple team members doing prs…

GitLab is an LLC, GitHub is what's owned by MS

GitLab is an Inc. :)

Still independent.

Re: Travis CI acquired by Idera

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Post by TheJimMcKeeth »

papasound wrote: post #96
TheJimMcKeeth wrote: post #90

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As an employee of Embarcadero I can tell you they do invest in new development. Delphi has received a number of new features and updates since Idera aquired us. Could they invest more? You can always invest more, but it is important for the long term that the company and products continue, which Idera seems good at. * this is a comment from me personally and not an official company statement.

Do you think they will have enough money to fix gazillion of RIO bugs? Cause i have a feeling that Delphi is is getting out of tracks and nobody cares about it anymore? But i wish i am wrong since i like it very much.

Kind of off topic to this discussion, but yes.

Re: Travis CI acquired by Idera

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Post by jillesvangurp »

thijsvandien wrote: post #87
jillesvangurp wrote: post #74

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We made a smilar decision in 2017. The reason was that our builds were stupidly slow because travis uses cheap instances. There was no option to fix that other by allowing more concurrent builds. Travis has no feature to actually allow users to have reserved instances of a particular type. Money was not the issue; the feature does not exist. Builds were taking up to 20 minutes and with multiple team members doing prs…

GitHub. Microsoft does not own GitLab. :)

Heh, similarly named companies. You get my point though ;-)

Re: Travis CI acquired by Idera

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Post by ethomson »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #112
ethomson wrote: post #109

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I think that you want somebody who's unbiased to answer this from their perspective (I'm a PM for Azure DevOps, so I'm pretty biased). But I've built out Azure Pipelines for many platforms, including Ruby and RoR with a lot of success. Feel free to drop me an email (my HN username @microsoft.com) and I can point you to some pipelines.

Cool. The trick is, I don't want to "build out a pipeline", I just wanna write a handful of lines in a single config file and be up and going, which is what travis has given me. But Azure is def on my list to check out!

Haha, yes, sorry for making it sound bigger than it is. If you just want to do some build & test validation, it should just be a single yaml file. Not identical to Travis but close. We even added some getting started documentation if you’re familiar with Travis. https://docs.microsoft.com/azure/devops/pipelines/migrate/fr...

Re: Travis CI acquired by Idera

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Post by floofy222 »

andrewl-hn wrote: post #3

Looking at Idera portfolio, I see Embracadero (Delphi developers for many years), Sencha (Ext.js), Assembla (was GutHub of Subversion era). So it seems like they buy companies and products that were big and very important among developersin the past, but not necessary leading the pack today. I didn't think of Travis in that regard, though in a past few month I started to see Circle CI badges popping here and there fo…

Is there a good read somewhere about Travis CI vs Circle CI vs gitlab ?

Re: Travis CI acquired by Idera

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Post by DrTorte »

jrochkind1 wrote: post #91
DrTorte wrote: post #26

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Hey there, (Disclosure: Travis CI Employee) The migration from GitHub hooks is actually just about complete. You can see the changelog entry here: https://changelog.travis-ci.com/migrating-from-github-servic... Apologies for the lack of public updates on this!

Thanks! Good to know. Really kind of down to the wire though, eh? It would be really disastrous if the deadline were to be missed, but even if it goes smoothly in the end, how it's been handled does not inspire confidence. One documentation page still says "The migration was planned to start at the end of Q2 2018, but has been pushed back. We will announce a new date as soon as we are able." -- https://docs.travis-ci…

It's definitely not ideal, but it is less dangerous and close-to-the-wire than it sounds. It's actually separate from the migration to .com - which is something we haven't been great at communicating, and after talking it over yesterday, we're going to post something to clarify it a bit further. (Even working here, I was personally rather confused about it, and was running around yesterday chasing people down for answers.) The short of it as follows, though:

GitHub Services are going away. This is what .org relied on previously, and we are now mid process of getting everyone moved over to Webhooks instead. So, .org will rely on Webhooks instead.

In the meanwhile, we are still working on getting everyone migrated over to .com as well (which uses GitHub Apps), but that's unfortunately been a bit of a trickier beast than expected. We're still very much working on it, though. Hope that clears it up a bit!

EDIT: We are updating the docs to reflect this. :)

Re: Travis CI acquired by Idera

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Post by markoa »

anonova wrote: post #89
markoa wrote: post #30

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Thanks for mentioning Semaphore, cofounder here. Yes, we’re 100% bootstrapped and in this for the long haul. It’s really all about execution. We built 2.0 in a timeframe in which we’d previously ship one or two features. Of course years of domain experience help, but everyone from Fred Brooks to DHH is right — adding more people won’t help build a better product faster.

I wouldn't mind trying out Semaphore for some open source projects. On the community open source page [1], from what I understand, you offer a free service, but the pricing page [2] says that it's not free yet? [1]: https://semaphoreci.com/community/open-source [2]: https://semaphoreci.com/pricing

If you don't mind logs and project pages not being publicly visible, you can start using the Semaphore 2.0 free tier with your open source project. If you run out of credits send a support request and we'll increase.

That community page is outdated and referring to Semaphore Classic (1.0) and 2.0 will be getting proper open source support soon.

Re: Travis CI acquired by Idera

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Post by rasjani »

foolip wrote: post #104
epage wrote: post #59

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I feel dirty for saying this but Azure Pipelines is the service that is tempting to me because of the power of its file format (variable substitution, conditionals, template tasks and steps).

We use Azure Pipelines for https://github.com/web-platform-tests/wpt with some help from friends at Microsoft, and it's a great product! It's very "power user" in that it's easy to get lost amongst all the options, but nothing else I've tried has the same breadth of OSes and ability to have one job depend on another in intricate ways. And, 10 free parallel builds, including macOS!

I’m quite liking azure for now and most of my company’s foss projects run there. But. Reason for getting lost is abysmally bad documentation. Yeah, all that I need is there but it’s structured so so bad.

Also, hosted agents have small inconsistencies that make the pipeline to have ton of do this on Linux but not in OS X or windows and so forth...

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