Experimental Physics and
Industrial Control System

I asked officially, if they can “support” building my EPICS module as a free service,
and here is the answer

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[sniped the name of the support team member]

Hello Torsten​ ,
Thanks for contacting Travis-CI Support! We would love to help.

We offer an Open Source Subscription for free to non-commercial open-source projects. To qualify for an Open Source subscription, the project must meet the following requirements:

• You are a project lead or regular committer (latest commit in the last month)
• Project must be at least 3 months old and is in active development (with regular commits and activity)
• Project meets the OSD specification
• Project must not be sponsored by a commercial company or organization (monetary or with employees paid to work on the project)
• Project can not provide commercial services or distribute paid versions of the software

Does this sound like you and your project? We'd be very happy to support you!

However, if your project does not match these requirements or you have further questions [1], please feel free to ask!

We look forward to your response if you meet these requirements to proceed with the next steps.

Thank you

[1] https://docs.travis-ci.com/user/billing-faq/
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I haven’t tried to convince them to support EPICS modules…
Having said that, I am working on the conversion of an EPICS module into Github actions.
Get some tips and tricks from Ralph, and have some WIP going on.

More info and pointers to come later, stay tuned.
/Torsten

On 13 jan. 2021, at 19:17, Michael Davidsaver via Core-talk <core-talk at aps.anl.gov> wrote:

On 1/13/21 10:08 AM, Mark Rivers via Core-talk wrote:

Folks,



I had a question about travis-ci.  If I understand correctly the free version is going away?  Currently the areaDetector documentation is built as a Travis job each time there is a commit to the top-level areaDetector/areaDetector repository.  Is this about to stop working, and if so what is the best alternative?

The Travis company has been making noises about turning off travis-ci.org for some time now.
It wouldn't surprise me if they got cold feet again.  After realizing that travis-ci.com
wasn't an option without paying more than I'm willing to, I started migrating all of my projects
to use github actions.

So far this has been smooth, and has even simplified things somewhat as the github actions
builder VMs are more uniform across different OS, so eg. I have been able to remove my
custom scripts for installing python on OSX and Windows.