[QGIS-Developer] Docker pull rate limit / Travis

[Alessandro Pasotti]

On Mon, Jan 4, 2021 at 10:17 AM Richard Duivenvoorde
<rdmailings at duif.net> wrote:
>
> Yes, I hit that too. thanks for bringing this up!
>
> Another idea: as the docker is actually more or less 'static' (??? or is is pushed to hub on every build ???), can we (or Travis) not 'cache' it? As in" place it somewhere so it can be 'created/started' fresh any time, but not 'fetched' upon every build?
> Or does this loose the whole purpose of this...
> Caching could be: put the image on some webserver of somebody with 'unlimited' bandwidth (like some universities, providers or (unix)usergroups?).
>

I think that might work, the deps image is a base image and it doesn't
change so often.

> BUT: As QGIS is getting bigger and bigger, we have to find solutions for this kind of 'size'-issues when using 'free' services. Same with for example the use of OSM-tiles or Nominatim-service, Transifex etc etc... We have to be either creative/clever, OR setup our own stuff...
>
> Regards,
>
> Richard Duivenvoorde
>

Yeah, let's just hope GitHub will remain free or we will have bigger problems ;)

In the meantime I can fill up the form
https://www.docker.com/community/open-source/application if noone has
already done that.


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