Review CI Tooling

[wlanslovenija]

Review CI Tooling

[RalfJung]

We are using travis-ci.org though (the OSS version), not travis-ci.com (the commercial version that provides a free tier to OSS sometimes). It is unclear to me what is changing there, since the blog post above emphasized to be about travis-ci.com.

[kaechele]

The .org product is being shut down December 31 and users migrated to the .com one: https://mailchi.mp/3d439eeb1098/travis-ciorg-is-moving-to-travis-cicom

[RalfJung]

Ah, fun. You'd think they'd email people actively using travis-ci.org that the service is being discontinued, but it seems they consider that unnecessary... at least I didn't get an email even though I use this on another project.

Time to move to GitHub Actions, it seems.

[mitar]

Hm, I think we could also just ask for OSS minutes. They say:

We will be offering an allotment of OSS minutes that will be reviewed and allocated on a case by case basis. Should you want to apply for these credits please open a request with Travis CI support stating that you’d like to be considered for the OSS allotment.

I think it is pretty clear we are an open source project here which does not plan to misuse them.

Time to move to GitHub Actions, it seems.

From my understanding, I would doubt this it is really possible to replicate our current setup with multiple docker containers trying to test networking between them.

I have had good success with GitLab CI, which you can also use just as CI for GitHub only. You can run Docker in Docker there and use that to test things we might need here. So I am suggesting that if porting to GitHub Actions fails, maybe GitLab CI is to try.

[RalfJung]

Hm, I think we could also just ask for OSS minutes. They say:

That would also be an option, yeah. And then we wouldn't have to reconfigure everything.^^

Does anyone want to take care of this?

[mitar]

OK, I looked into instructions a bit, to send them an e-mail and I realized we have first to do our homework: we should move CI to travis.com, get free plan, and see how long the current minutes last us. Then we should see how much we are using per month, and then we can write to them to ask for that amount to be given us monthly.

Can somebody do this transfer and see how much minutes we need at all?

[RalfJung]

To do that it seems an owner of the "wlanslovenija" org needs to approve travis-ci.com's "GitHub App". I just pressed the button to request this approval, so hopefully you can see this somewhere to give Travis access so repos in here can be added.

[mitar]

Already granted. :-)

[RalfJung]

I still don't seem to be able to set up CI. I went to https://travis-ci.com/organizations/wlanslovenija/repositories, and added specifically the tunneldigger repo, but then after some time it comes back just saying "We couldn’t find any active repositories you have access to".

[mitar]

Hm, I got like 3 request now. I approved all of them.

[mitar]

Agh. I tried now few times and I figured it out. So I even gave them access to all repositories and this give me a hint. Because tunneldigger was not listed there either. The reason for that is that it is under "migrate" tab. So it is listed there. Can you try from there?

[RalfJung]

For this I need to "join the beta", and I think wlanslovenija also needs to? It is listed as "not admin" here.

[RalfJung]

I think you'll have to do these steps as I just don't have the required permissions.^^

[mitar]

OK. Migrated. Check things out now.

[RalfJung]

That seems to have done it. I'll make a PR to see if it does anything.

[mitar]

We should probably keep this open and record here amount of minutes we are using and if we need to apply for more? Or should we reopen then?

[RalfJung]

I feel we can tackle the problem "not enough minutes¨ when we get there. Do you have any idea how many minutes we have now?

[mitar]

Sounds good.

I think around 1000 minutes. See here current amount we used: https://travis-ci.com/github/wlanslovenija?tab=insights

[kaechele]

Free minutes for OSS projects seem to have been a dud: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25338983