cisagov/travis-wait-improved

A tool to help long-running, yet reticent, processes avoid death at the hands of Traivs-CI.

travis-wait-improved 👷🏻‍⏲👍

travis-wait-improved is a tool to prevent Travis-CI from thinking a long-running process has stalled. It will start a child process, and pass its output through along with keep-alive messages.

For example, if you wanted to run a packer build that could take up to 30 minutes, you would add the following to your .travis.yml file:

before_deploy:
  - pip install travis-wait-improved

deploy:
  - provider: script
    script: travis-wait-improved --timeout 30m packer build packer.json

Requirements

Python versions 3.6 and above. Note that Python 2 is not supported.

Contributing

We welcome contributions! Please see here for details.

License

This project is in the worldwide public domain.

This project is in the public domain within the United States, and copyright and related rights in the work worldwide are waived through the CC0 1.0 Universal public domain dedication.

All contributions to this project will be released under the CC0 dedication. By submitting a pull request, you are agreeing to comply with this waiver of copyright interest.

travis-wait-improved's Issues

SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character

I'm getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/home/travis/.local/bin/travis-wait-improved", line 6, in <module>
    from travis_wait_improved.sherpa import main
  File "/home/travis/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/travis_wait_improved/sherpa.py", line 29
SyntaxError: Non-ASCII character '\xe2' in file /home/travis/.local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/travis_wait_improved/sherpa.py on line 29, but no encoding declared; see http://python.org/dev/peps/pep-0263/ for details

.travis.yml:

  ...
  before_deploy:
    - pip install travis-wait-improved --user
    deploy:
      skip_cleanup: true
      provider: script
      script: travis-wait-improved --timeout 30m bash scripts/travis_deploy.sh
      on:
        all_branches: true
  ...

When I tried without --user:

Could not install packages due to an EnvironmentError: [Errno 13] Permission denied: '/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/docopt.py'
Consider using the `--user` option or check the permissions.

The readme should point out that this tool only works on python3.

the readme should point out that this tool only works on python3. I hit the exact same issue today.

Originally posted by @samos123 in #5 (comment)