I've had the actions beta for a while - I'm actually playing with it right now to see if I can get my local fork to build. I wonder if I can add my beta-ness to MacPorts somehow. They ask me the org, but I bet I can't turn it on even with the right permissions.
—Mark _______________________ Mark E. Anderson <[email protected]> Find me on LinkedIn <https://www.linkedin.com/in/markemer/> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 3:00 PM Rainer Müller <[email protected]> wrote: > On 04/08/2019 17.34, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > > On Aug 1, 2019, at 10:50, Blair Zajac wrote: > > > >> Why Azure? > > > > We already use Azure to test pull requests, but we test against the > released version of MacPorts base, currently 2.5.4. I guess Mojca is > suggesting we add another builder that uses the newer MacPorts base master, > to discover if some ports are not compatible with that. > > > > We also already use Travis CI for pull requests, but Travis was > purchased by another company known for allowing its services to languish > and die, hence our desire to find alternatives. > > > > It would need to be free and support building on macOS with root access > and not have such a low time limit that our builds would time out. Travis > for example has a time limit of 50 minutes which has already been > problematic for some ports. If you know of other services that offer that, > let us know. > > GitHub announced GitHub Actions today, which is a CI system provided for > free on > public repositories. It even supports macOS. > > https://github.blog/2019-08-08-github-actions-now-supports-ci-cd/ > > However, the announcement does not mention any limits such as the maximum > per-job execution time, which has been our main problem with other > services so > far. I guess this might be something they will still try to figure out > during > the beta. > > In any case, it might be worth a try. It will be available in November for > everyone. Just in case anyone wants to experiment with it earlier, I > signed up > the @macports organization for the GitHub Actions Beta and we are now on > the > waitlist. > > Rainer >
