[Board] Travis-CI & OSGeo

[María Arias de Reyna]

If projects need it, I see no reason why not to support it.

On Sat, Apr 21, 2018 at 1:50 AM, Helena Mitasova <hmitaso at ncsu.edu> wrote:
> I am in support of this as well. Helena
>
> On Apr 20, 2018, at 5:46 PM, Michael Smith <michael.smith.erdc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I don’t see any reason why we wouldn’t want to provide this for OSGeo
> projects. This is part of our mandate, providing infrastructure support for
> our projects. I’m fully in support of this.
>
> Michael Smith
> OSGeo Treasurer
>
>
> On Apr 20, 2018, at 10:24 AM, Even Rouault <even.rouault at spatialys.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Recently projects hosted under the github.com/OSGeo organization (namely
> GDAL, proj.4 and osgeo4mac), and using Travis-CI for continuous integration
> builds, have had an issue where the number of 5 concurrent jobs per
> organization (so for all projects under OSGeo/) was under high stress (some
> projects could wait for hours before their jobs to be scheduled). We
> temporarily work arounded that by limiting the number of concurrent builds
> for GDAL to 4 to leave at least a free slot for the other projects.
>
> I contacted Travis-CI support and they gave me a quote to increase the
> number of concurrent jobs :
> 10 concurrent jobs: $1925/year
> 15 concurrent jobs: $3850/year
> 20 concurrent jobs: $5775/year
> (taking into account a 30% discount for non-profit organizations).
>
> 10 should probably be enough for now.
>
> A workaround (cheating) would be for each project to be hosted in its own
> 'organization', but that would decrease OSGeo github presence (which makes
> sense to have for a software-focused foundation, right ?), and would be
> slightly disturbing for users due to URL changes.
>
> Thoughts ?
>
> Even
>
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> Helena Mitasova
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