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

[chessai]

Thanks for porting this over Carter.

>From what I've seen, I think GitHub CI is just better overall. Would
be great if haskell-ci had some integration with it

On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 4:21 PM Carter Schonwald
<carter.schonwald at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> this mirrors my current understanding of all the choices myself, and it certainly helps that GH *explicitly* puts the OSS/free tier on equal or  footing with paid customers.
> which  absolutely makes sense given their various corporate structures (GH actions is a path to folks perhaps wanting to use azure services more organically? )
>
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 5:39 PM Mihai Maruseac <mihai.maruseac at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> As a user of all of the following, GitHub Actions > Circle CI > Travis.
>>
>> You get much more control on Github Actions, you can cache stuff, you
>> can control when it runs.
>>
>> On Mon, Nov 16, 2020 at 10:17 AM <ulidtko at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >
>> > 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 ! :)
>> > >
>> >
>> >
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>> Mihai Maruseac (MM)
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>> solve: find it." -- George Polya
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