[Haskell-cafe] heres a replacement CI template using gh actions: Psa : perhaps time for maintainers to start migrating off Travis ci

[Joachim Durchholz]

Not wanting to dishearten you, but Github *was* acquired by Microsoft, 
and that company has changed policy more often than I have appendages to 
count.
Which means that replacing a Travis workflow with a Github workflow 
isn't improving anything, it's merely another station on the CI 
caravan's route.

Gitlab *is* publishing large parts of their server-side code. Set up a 
local test installation, make sure that CI automation runs there, then 
migrate to Gitlab - that's the strategy I'd choose, YMMV.

Gitlab may become FOSS-unfriendly over time just like any other 
commercial entity, but their barrier is significantly higher: The will 
loser more users and faster if they try anything funny with their 
policy, because then people will just run their own servers. Their 
current policy is a bit of a "we promise to remain FOSS-friendly, 
because, see? - we're locking ourselves in your corner" plot, and of 
course me advertising this is exactly what they want to achieve :-)

DISCLAIMER: I am NOT affiliated with Gitlab in any way.
Or with any other commercial entity offering services to the open-source 
community.

Regards,
Jo

Am 13.12.20 um 20:59 schrieb Carter Schonwald:
> https://github.com/cartazio/ralist/blob/495c3dcb3a8e16a693a97a415f731907549aa615/.github/workflows/hs-matrix.yml  
> is my current iteration
> 
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 1:02 PM Carter Schonwald 
> <carter.schonwald at gmail.com <mailto:carter.schonwald at gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
>     Hey everyone: it looks like, from my perspective and experiences,
>     that Travis ci should perhaps now be viewed as not open source
>     friendly. Or even converging on hostile?
> 
>     1) crazy long queue times/ latency for oss ci actions to run
> 
>     2) very low concurrency on oss builds.
> 
>     3) very low build build  minute caps for oss that require high touch
>     customer support contact to adjust.
> 
>     I’ve started moving my own projects slowly to gh actions for now,
>     though there’s also gitlab ci , src hut and other options that may
>     suit different folks.
> 
>     There’s definitely some ways to keep on having the clever cabal
>     caching we know and love that folks like the Haskell-ci folks and
>     others have hacked out for Travis be available on other platforms,
>     though I don’t think there’s consolidated docs for those yet ?  Def
>     seen it discussed though.
> 
>     https://github.com/haskell-CI/haskell-ci/issues/411
> 
>     Heres a url to my dupe ticket where I share an example naive use of
>     the setup Haskell gh actions Config, definitely not perfect. But
>     kinda amazing to have Mac and Linux and windows ci all in one ! :)
> 
> 
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