After more exchanges with the OVH people, we've just managed to get an
extension of our free resources until the 2nd of January 2022, which
should buy us more time to find alternate solutions.
I'm going to be spinning up VMs today, which come right in time for the
5.9.3 and 6.0 releases we're planning this week.
Raphaël
On 9/29/21 11:39 AM, Raphaël Gomès wrote:
Hi all,
I am bringing unfortunate news, though I hope this situation is
temporary.
Earlier this month, OVH which provided free VMs for my company Octobus
has started billing us with no real notice. This wasn't a surprise
however, since we were in a "grace period" of sorts and could expect
the billing to start at any moment, we just hoped it would be later in
the year.
Four of those VMs were used exclusively for Mercurial's Windows CI in
order to help the project move forward and truly support Windows
(especially on Python 3). Unfortunately, this new regular financial
load adds up on top of the rest of the investment our small company
puts into Mercurial - whether it be developer time for projects like
Heptapod or directly on Mercurial like bug fixes, code review, etc. -
and is not sustainable for us at the moment.
I have already stopped two of the four machines earlier this week and
will remove the last two tomorrow (30th of September), meaning that we
will not have any regular Windows CI for the project anymore.
I've sent https://phab.mercurial-scm.org/D11499 to adjust the CI file
to not break every pipeline from now on, hopefully it can be queue
before that.
We're trying to figure out ways of gaining back Windows VMs (and
actually for other OSes as well) in a more sustainable manner, if you
know of anyone that could help, please reach out.
Thanks,
Raphaël
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