The delays at Travis were primarily due to a few things:
- Limited capacity and high demand
- Abuse of the free service by cryptocurrency miners
The problem of the crypto miners has been pretty much resolved, but 1 would
still be an issue on Travis if there hadn't been a mass exit to GHA last year.
As GHA runs on the Azure cloud, where there's hundreds of thousands of servers
available and typically a lot of idle capacity, I doubt we'll see anything like
the delays at Travis.
If capacity does become an issue there are many simple steps Microsoft/Github
could take first to reduce the load, such as:
- limiting concurrent jobs for free accounts
- allowing auto-terminating a set of jobs when it's triggered again in a short
time frame
- allowing re-run of only a single failed job instead of an entire matrix
All of these were features/requirements at Travis because they were capacity
limited. The fact that such features don't (yet) exist indicates there is not a
capacity concern (yet). Seems they're focusing more on building out the
service and gaining more customers and open source contributions to the
available actions.
On 2/3/21, 6:07 PM, "Weiwei Yang" <w...@apache.org> wrote:
Hi Greg
Agreed. No assumption has been made.
I was just hoping that GitHub can hold it up. Just in case the delays come
back again, the Apache community can look for a solution together.
Asking for help from Microsoft is just one possible option.
Weiwei
On Wed, Feb 3, 2021 at 2:40 AM Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 3, 2021, 01:36 Weiwei Yang <w...@apache.org> wrote:
> >...
>
> > we can communicate with Microsoft about giving the Apache
> > repo some extra resources.
> > I guess it won't be a big problem to such a wealthy company 😉
> >
>
> Their wealth does not mean they can give us anything we want. That is a
> fallacy. Their wealth means they can be kind to us, and we should be
> thankful. Microsoft is extremely generous to the Foundation, across many
> paths (sponsorship, Azure, MSDN, etc). Let us not presume that we can keep
> asking for more.
>
> Regards,
> -g
>
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