On 2013/01/15 2:20 PM, Damon McDougall wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Recently, it has become more and more common that the travis builds
> fail.  They fail not because the test suite fails but because of some
> inherent issues with travis itself.  Usually, either the git clone
> fails or some other simple shell command fails.  I consider these
> 'failures' as being false negatives.  While a false negative once or
> twice a month would not be anything to worry about, I feel like this
> is happening often enough to render the pull request status extremely
> unhelpful.
>
> I realise the above is merely my opinion, but I feel that I would be
> surprised if others did not find the Travis' false negative hit rate
> tiresome.

Agreed.

>
> If practical, I would like to move away from travis and have our test
> suite run on a more reliable service.  How do others feel about this?
>

Good--but what is the superior alternative?

I know nothing about who offers such services, why they do so, or the 
quality of the service.

Eric

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