+1 from my side and I think @Michael Vorburger <m...@vorburger.ch> has been a fan as well as we've implemented it as CI for Mifos/OpenMF repos.
Ed On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 9:08 AM Aleksandar Vidakovic < chee...@monkeysintown.com> wrote: > +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 >>> >>> -- *Ed Cable* President/CEO, Mifos Initiative edca...@mifos.org | Skype: edcable | Mobile: +1.484.477.8649 *Collectively Creating a World of 3 Billion Maries | *http://mifos.org <http://facebook.com/mifos> <http://www.twitter.com/mifos>
