Keep in mind that the ASF has a paid subscription [1] to Travis, so we are not 
limited to the open source plan.

[1] https://blogs.apache.org/infra/entry/apache_gains_additional_travis_ci

On Tue, 2 Mar 2021, at 08:28, Mario Emmenlauer wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 02.03.21 05:28, Allen George wrote:
> > Hi -
> > 
> > Really sorry if I missed the conversation about this, but it seems like
> > Travis open source builds are being drastically reduced. I only realized
> > this when looking at the ominous warning on the Travis build page for
> > Thrift. Counting up the minutes for a single push indicates that we use 500
> > minutes per PR (!) This is a serious problem, because as far as I can tell,
> 
> I'm not sure how much this is related, but I'm under the impression that
> currently every build is starting from vanilla environment and installing
> all dependencies from scratch. This spends significant time on downloads
> and installations, and (what's almost worse) it often fails when upstream
> dependencies are temporarily unavailable or changed.
> 
> It could be much better to have a persistent environment, for example
> preserve the pre-installed docker containers?
> 
> All the best,
> 
>     Mario Emmenlauer
> 
> 
> --
> BioDataAnalysis GmbH, Mario Emmenlauer      Tel. Buero: +49-89-74677203
> Balanstr. 43                   mailto: memmenlauer * biodataanalysis.de
> D-81669 München                          http://www.biodataanalysis.de/
>

Reply via email to