Re: AppVeyor timeouts -- Migrate to Azure Pipelines?

On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 2:06 PM Christoph M. Becker <cmbecker69@gmx.de> wrote: > On 02.02.2019 at 13:18, Nikita Popov wrote: > > > Since some time ago (not sure how long) our AppVeyor builds have been > > timing out more often than not, to the point that I've started ignoring > > failing AppVeyor builds entirely. > > Indeed, this is particularly annoying for RMs. > > > I just learned about the Azure Pipelines ( > > > > https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/services/devops/pipelines/) > > offering, > > which offers open source projects 10 parallel builds with unlimited > > minutes. Assuming there's no other catch here, it might be worthwhile to > > migrate our Windows CI jobs to Azure Pipelines. > > An alternative to consider is using Travis for Windows CI[1], too. > It's an option, but I think we're generally better off using multiple CI platforms to increase the number of parallel builds we get. Next to the builds we already have, I think it would be very good to also have a macos builder (this is supported by both Travis and Azure Pipelines, but needs someone familiar with the platform to set things up) and a 32-bit builder (probably a -m32 build on x86_64 Linux). That would bring us to a total of six builds, which would probably make the Travis queue somewhat slow if we used it exclusively. Nikita