[Qgis-psc] Github account limits

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Hey Nyall,
What would we need?

I'll try to find someone that knows someone but i need to know what we need
to ask for.

Cheers

Marco Bernasocchi

QGIS.org Chair
OSGEO.org VP Europe
OPENGIS.ch CEO
http://berna.io

On Thu, 18 Sept 2025, 01:34 Nyall Dawson, <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:

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> On Tue, 22 Oct 2024 at 00:01, Matthias Kuhn <matthias at opengis.ch> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Nyall,
> >
> > What did we hit specifically?
> > If it's about storage for packages, that has been solved by making all
> packages public (it took me an hour of clicking through each of them ...
> thanks for adjusting the configuration Nyall)
> >
> > What would be nice is more "cache" space, but to my knowledge, that's
> not something that github sells like this.
> > Or more powerful machines, that's something they do sell.
>
> This morning I received an email from Github stating that we'll soon be
> force limited to a 10gb cache size, and have the option to pay to upgrade
> this. This is going to hurt badly, given how poorly the github
> workflows already perform and how reliant we are on the caching to hold our
> infrastructure together.  😱
>
> Would it be possible now for someone officially to approach Github and ask
> for special consideration for our project?
>
> Nyall
>
>
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> >
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 21, 2024 at 4:57 AM Nyall Dawson via QGIS-PSC <
> qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Mon, 21 Oct 2024 at 12:18, Marco Bernasocchi <marco at qgis.org> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hey Nyall,
> >>> I'll try my connections :)
> >>
> >>
> >> Thanks Marco!
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Any specific goal you would like me to reach?
> >>
> >>
> >> For the storage side of things we hit our limit at about the 20th of
> the month -- so ideally at **least** 1/3rd extra for storage.
> >>
> >> And then whatever specification bumps we can get for the runners we can
> get away with 😁
> >>
> >>>
> >>> Cheers Marco
> >>>
> >>> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024, 19:02 Nyall Dawson via QGIS-PSC, <
> qgis-psc at lists.osgeo.org> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Hi PSC!
> >>>>
> >>>> The QGIS Github account is currently bumping up against monthly
> limits, which impacts development as we approach the end of month. When we
> hit these limits we get jobs which are canceled and/or timeout (due to
> missing caches).
> >>>>
> >>>> I am wondering if someone from PSC is able to officially approach
> GitHub and request some special consideration here, and see if they'll
> extend our limits (without cost 😉) as a goodwill gesture toward a popular
> open source project.
> >>>>
> >>>> Any bump they can give us to cached storage limits/job
> resources/concurrent job limits would GREATLY assist QGIS development...
> >>>>
> >>>> Thanks in advance!
> >>>> Nyall
> >>>>
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