On Tue, Oct 25, 2022 at 10:01 AM Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Infra have notified us that we need to migrate off Travis CI. The
> recommended replacement is GitHub actions.
>
> We are already using GitHub actions as a smoke test and we also have
> BuiltBot and Gump providing CI.
>
> Travis provides access to ARM64, s390x and ppc64le which do not appear
> to be available in any of our current CI systems.
>
> The ASF Jenkins service does appear to have a ppc64le node. There also
> appears to be an ARM64 node but it is currently unavailable.
>
> We need to remove the configuration for the Travis builds. That is easy
> to do. The question is do we want to replace the builds for these
> additional platforms?
>
> I don't recall any instances of platform specific issues detected by
> these CI systems. Travis has been so unreliable at times, I have
> contemplated removing the Travis builds entirely irrespective of this
> migration request from the infrastructure team. I am therefore leaning
> towards the simple solution of not replacing the Travis builds. Should
> we have a platform specific bug reported then we can, as we have done in
> the past, figure out a way to get access to a suitable test environment.
>
> Thoughts?

Given history, we should be fine with only GH actions and the main
Apache CI. Sure having more platforms is always a good bonus, but if
it is no longer easy to have it's likely not worth the effort.

Rémy

> Mark
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