[Haskell-cafe] Psa : perhaps time for maintainers to start migrating off Travis ci

[ulidtko at gmail.com]

Speaking of CI systems and OpenSource, I'd like to mention CircleCI as 
well: https://circleci.com/open-source/
(No affiliation, just a happy user.)

Did have slightly negative experience with TravisCI recently, can 
confirm the sentiment.

On Mon, Nov 16 2020 at 12:02:52 PM -0600, Carter Schonwald 
<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 ! :)
>