[Qgis-psc] Github account limits

[Nyall Dawson]

On Thu, 18 Sept 2025, 4:42 pm Marco Bernasocchi, <marco at qgis.org> wrote:

> Hey Nyall,
> What would we need?
>

I'd say at least 100gb. 500gb would be better and give us some breathing
room.

Nyall


> 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:
>
>>
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
>> >
>> >
>> > 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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