[Board] Travis-CI & OSGeo

[Sandro Santilli]

On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 05:46:12PM -0400, Michael Smith wrote:
> I don’t see any reason why we wouldn’t want to provide this for OSGeo projects.

I do: we'd be an OpenSource Software Foundation paying a ClosedSource
Software Company to keep being successful in their business model.

Compare that to giving money to community members willing to provide
build agents to the existing OSGeo build infrastructure (drone.osgeo.org).

See https://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Drone

Me and Regina are currently the only ones providing build agents.

Or also, compare that to paying the external service to someone
who puts the service code out there as open source, for example
Drone developer himself ( https://drone.io/pricing/ ) or gitlab
people ( https://about.gitlab.com/pricing/ ).

Or also, to paying sysadmin teams to build these things in-house.

What's been asked here is to pay for what is really just marketing:
showing that "OSGeo has a good presence on GitHub", as if doing so
makes it a _serious_ OpenSource player. This is surrendering to
GitHub marketing stating "where software is built!". Are we paying
to be marketing agents ?


--strk;