+1 for Github Actions... use it for quite a while and it's really reliable.
On Thu, 4 Nov 2021, 16:20 Benura Abeywardena, <benur...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Petri, > > Good idea ! > > Thanks & Regards, > Benura > > On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 8:25 PM Petri Tuomola <petri.tuom...@gmail.com> > wrote: > >> Hi all >> >> As I’m sure you’ve noticed, Travis builds have recently been getting more >> and more unreliable: either there is a queue of several hours before the >> build is executed, or in many cases no build is triggered at all. This >> seems to be due to the limits on Apache’s Travis account. I asked about >> this in the Apache Infra JIRA, and the answer was as follows: >> >> "Our Travis CI capacity is very limited and we will not be increasing >> that limit in the foreseeable future. If you are not happy with it, we >> suggest you switch to GitHub Actions or our Jenkins/BuildBot CI instead.” >> >> Given this, I think it would make sense for us to explore alternatives.To >> try this out, I’ve created a CI build pipeline using Github Actions and >> raised a PR for it (https://github.com/apache/fineract/pull/1955). This >> is a “parallel” pipeline - in that I haven’t removed the Travis one. So >> once this PR is merged, we should get both a Github build as well as a >> Travis build for each PR. >> >> My suggestion would be to merge this and see how the two compare for the >> next week or so. If Github is more reliable / faster, then we could switch >> off the Travis one altogether. >> >> The only caveat is: I have not been able to test this very >> comprehensively, as the actions do not run unless the PR is merged. They >> seem to work OK in my own repository, but I can’t guarantee they will >> immediately work in the Apache repo. So there may be some false failures >> initially until we get this build working without issues. However, despite >> the possible “noise” from these failures, I think this would be a >> worthwhile exercise. >> >> Any concerns? If not, I can merge the actions in tomorrow and then >> address any issues to get them working asap. >> >> Regards >> Petri >> >>
