Re: [eclipse.org-committers] GitHub Actions CI Jobs

[Werner Keil <werner.keil@xxxxxxx>]

That’s a very good Point.

 

And while some Sound like they know what they’re doing, others like JFrog/Bintray/JCenter seem to make up their mind and even try to compete with most of These at the same time.

Jenkins and Cloudbees also started to restrict free use of ist Cloud instances to a Point where it was unbearable, especially to more mature Projects that do not see a Code Change and push or build every 10 or 14 days when those Projects became stalled and the CI instance would go away.

 

Cheers,

Werner

 

Von: Mikael Barbero
Gesendet: Dienstag, 23. März 2021 16:48
An: Marc Nuri
Cc: marc.nuri@xxxxxxxxxx; eclipse.org-committers@xxxxxxxxxxx
Betreff: Re: [eclipse.org-committers] GitHub Actions CI Jobs

 

 

As a side note, if I'm not mistaken, the 2000min/mo limitation only applies to private repos, the problem here is the concurrency limit which does apply to every repository (public or private).

 

I stand corrected. Thanks for the heads up. Details are on yet another page https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/usage-limits-billing-and-administration#about-billing-for-github-actions

 

However, free resources for Open Source projects are generally generous in the beginning and then get restrictions at some point. See the following examples from the past few months only:

 

• Travis CI: https://blog.travis-ci.com/2020-11-02-travis-ci-new-billing and https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/travis-cis-new-pricing-plan-threw-wrench-my-open-source-works
• Azure pipeline: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/change-in-azure-pipelines-grant-for-public-projects/
• Docker Hub: https://www.docker.com/blog/scaling-docker-to-serve-millions-more-developers-network-egress/ and https://www.docker.com/blog/scaling-dockers-business-to-serve-millions-more-developers-storage/
• Bintray, JCenter: https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/ 

 

Given the trend, I would think twice before going all in with some similar attractive offering for a business critical project. IMHO ;)

 

Cheers,

Mikaël Barbero 

Manager — Release Engineering and Technology | Eclipse Foundation

🐦 @mikbarbero

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