I have found Travis logs quite useful as the browser can show them. Azure logs come in zip files which are rather inconvenient to deal with. I don't think that dropping Azure would be a loss for me.
Kalevi Suominen On Monday, January 28, 2019 at 10:01:51 PM UTC+2, Aaron Meurer wrote: > > So Azure Pipelines has been running now for about 3 1/2 months. I > would like to get feedback on how people like it. > > For myself, it seems that Travis has fixed most of the failing builds > issues that it was having. I've also noticed that Travis actually > finishes faster than Azure, possibly because of the higher concurrent > build limit. > > Frankly, I'm not too happy with Azure. The web interface is about as > complicated as they could possibly make it. It took me half an hour > just to find something as simple as the setting to disable email > notifications. The YAML spec is also much more complicated, and > despite being so, has some serious limitations, such as environment > variables not being shared across "scripts". The most annoying thing > by far is that people with push access don't have the ability to > restart failed builds. I think I as an admin can give people access, > but 1) this is annoying to do, and 2) I really can't even figure out > where I should do that (I can't stress just how complicated and > unintuitive their web interface is). > > Travis for its part is extremely simple, both in its web interface and > YAML spec. It's also very widely used, meaning most issues you would > encounter with it you can quickly find a workaround by Googling. For > instance, there is a workaround required to get Python 3.7 working, > but a Google search for "Python 3.7 Travis" turns up > https://github.com/travis-ci/travis-ci/issues/9815, which has the > workaround in the first comment. Contrast that with "Azure pipelines > pypy", which only turns up my issue requesting official support, with > no workarounds ( > https://github.com/Microsoft/azure-pipelines-tasks/issues/8514). > > So for my part, I would like to stop using it. I'm adding Python 3.7 > support to Travis here, which was the only thing that was only on > Azure https://github.com/sympy/sympy/pull/15867 (yes, this will add > more Travis builds, but we should be able to drop 3.4 support after > this next release). > > But I would also like to hear others' opinions on it. Have you noticed > that Azure is any better than Travis in some way? I don't follow every > PR, so I don't notice every issue that comes up with Travis or Azure. > > Aaron Meurer > > On Fri, Nov 9, 2018 at 12:43 PM Aaron Meurer <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Azure has fewer concurrent builds than Travis (10 instead of 15), but > > it also has longer builds 60 instead of 50, meaning we can split the > > tests 2 ways instead of 4. I think Azure also boots up faster and > > possibly has faster machines, though I haven't tested it. > > > > Aaron Meurer > > On Thu, Nov 8, 2018 at 9:06 PM Sidhant Nagpal <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > Right, the test time is likely to be affected further on the account > of lesser concurrent builds on Azure. > > > > > > -- > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "sympy" group. > > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to [email protected]. > > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > > > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. > > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/08646799-88cc-4375-af17-58fd6682fa9d%40googlegroups.com. > > > > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sympy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/sympy. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/sympy/bcf320e4-3dae-4165-83db-c61ee1f91a4b%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
