Re: [eclipse.org-committers] GitHub Actions CI Jobs

[Mikael Barbero <mikael.barbero@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

As a side note, if I'm not mistaken, the 2000min/mo limitation only applies to private repos, the problem here is the concurrency limit which does apply to every repository (public or private).

I stand corrected. Thanks for the heads up. Details are on yet another page https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/usage-limits-billing-and-administration#about-billing-for-github-actions

However, free resources for Open Source projects are generally generous in the beginning and then get restrictions at some point. See the following examples from the past few months only:

• Travis CI: https://blog.travis-ci.com/2020-11-02-travis-ci-new-billing and https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2020/travis-cis-new-pricing-plan-threw-wrench-my-open-source-works
• Azure pipeline: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/devops/change-in-azure-pipelines-grant-for-public-projects/
• Docker Hub: https://www.docker.com/blog/scaling-docker-to-serve-millions-more-developers-network-egress/ and https://www.docker.com/blog/scaling-dockers-business-to-serve-millions-more-developers-storage/
• Bintray, JCenter: https://jfrog.com/blog/into-the-sunset-bintray-jcenter-gocenter-and-chartcenter/ 

Given the trend, I would think twice before going all in with some similar attractive offering for a business critical project. IMHO ;)

Cheers,

Mikaël Barbero 

Manager — Release Engineering and Technology | Eclipse Foundation

🐦 @mikbarbero

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