<snip> > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 5:47 AM Honnappa Nagarahalli > <honnappa.nagaraha...@arm.com> wrote: > > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 2:45 PM Aaron Conole <acon...@redhat.com> > wrote: > > > > Thanks for working on this. Sadly, I think we will have to > > > > abandon Travis soon - given the new changes it is looking very > > > > awful. Robot already is starved for job time. > > I am looking at [1], is DPDK not considered as open source project? > > > > [1] https://blog.travis-ci.com/oss-announcement > > Ilya (@OVS) contacted the Travis support. > The reply is that a project that has sponsored contributors can not ask for > free > tokens on Travis CI. > > I personally did not try to contact their support given this response. > > > > > > Since we don't have ARM test runs, I guess we will have to rely on > > > > something else for that coverage now, but I like that there is > > > > coverage included at least to compile. > > > > > > For ARM test runs, UNH is a good candidate but nothing prevents > > > other ARM based CI from being added. > > Is it possible to keep Travis CI for Arm? > > For individuals, the 10k credits with the current DPDK jobs get burned in > something like 4 runs (read: 4 runs a month). > Even if we narrow the configuration to only ARM, this will at best give us > x3, so > let's say 12 runs a month. > > Now consider the ovsrobot and the number of series that hit the list on a > worst^Wbest day like a week before rc1. > > > > > > I will need to update the robot to pull information from github > > > > actions, so for now it will need to be manually checked (but > > > > here's an example of a run: > > > > https://github.com/ovsrobot/dpdk/actions/runs/382073265). What's > > > > nice is > > > the robot is already primed to run the jobs, so that's good. > > Is there any guarantee that GitHub actions will be free forever? > > There is no "forever". I think we are spending our efforts on things that will not work for the community in the long run (unless the project spends money to buy credits)
> At least, UNH lab which the project sponsors seems viable on the mid/long > term. Yes, agree, all the more reason to continue to maintain the lab. > > > -- > David Marchand
