[Qgis-psc] Github account limits

[Marco Bernasocchi]

Hey Nyall,
Not really sure we can do anything,
It looks like it is not an existing feature yet and that it is in te 2025
roadmap https://github.com/github/roadmap/issues/1029

There are some ideas in this thread
https://github.com/orgs/community/discussions/42506

What do you think?

Cheers
Marco Bernasocchi

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

On Thu, 18 Sept 2025, 09:10 Nyall Dawson, <nyall.dawson at gmail.com> wrote:

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