Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ci: hook to Github Actions

[Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com>]

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> On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 5:47 AM Honnappa Nagarahalli
> <Honnappa.Nagarahalli@arm.com> wrote:
> > > On Wed, Nov 25, 2020 at 2:45 PM Aaron Conole <aconole@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > > > Thanks for working on this.  Sadly, I think we will have to
> > > > abandon Travis soon - given the new changes it is looking very
> > > > awful.  Robot already is starved for job time.
> > I am looking at [1], is DPDK not considered as open source project?
> >
> > [1] https://blog.travis-ci.com/oss-announcement
> 
> Ilya (@OVS) contacted the Travis support.
> The reply is that a project that has sponsored contributors can not ask for free
> tokens on Travis CI.
> 
> I personally did not try to contact their support given this response.
> 
> 
> > > > Since we don't have ARM test runs, I guess we will have to rely on
> > > > something else for that coverage now, but I like that there is
> > > > coverage included at least to compile.
> > >
> > > For ARM test runs, UNH is a good candidate but nothing prevents
> > > other ARM based CI from being added.
> > Is it possible to keep Travis CI for Arm?
> 
> For individuals, the 10k credits with the current DPDK jobs get burned in
> something like 4 runs (read: 4 runs a month).
> Even if we narrow the configuration to only ARM, this will at best give us x3, so
> let's say 12 runs a month.
> 
> Now consider the ovsrobot and the number of series that hit the list on a
> worst^Wbest day like a week before rc1.
> 
> 
> > > > I will need to update the robot to pull information from github
> > > > actions, so for now it will need to be manually checked (but
> > > > here's an example of a run:
> > > > https://github.com/ovsrobot/dpdk/actions/runs/382073265).  What's
> > > > nice is
> > > the robot is already primed to run the jobs, so that's good.
> > Is there any guarantee that GitHub actions will be free forever?
> 
> There is no "forever".
I think we are spending our efforts on things that will not work for the community in the long run (unless the project spends money to buy credits)

> At least, UNH lab which the project sponsors seems viable on the mid/long term.
Yes, agree, all the more reason to continue to maintain the lab.

> 
> 
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> David Marchand