2 years ago

Category: yaml

Continuous integration (CI) platform Travis CI announced last year that it would be introducing a new pricing model, following its long-awaited move from travis-ci.org to their new travis-ci.com domain, and ever since it seems that everyone is confused about how to proceed. While the problems seen at Travis CI are certainly not isolated — just last week, we wrote about how crypto-miners had overrun Docker Hub’s autobuilds — it seems that the company has run into a different problem entirely: clearly communicating the issue and its solution with its customers. Not to overstate the case, although some seem under the impression that users are leaving Travis CI in droves, but curl creator and lead developer Daniel Stenberg penned a blog post this week outlining the reasons why he was saying bye-bye to Travis CI and moving the open source project’s builds to Zuul CI and Circle CI. For Stenberg, it seems that everything boiled down to poor communication and what he sees as a broken promise from Travis CI to provide free builds for open source projects.

We understand that other organizations contribute to the open source community through donating things like developer time, and these contributions will in no way limit open source projects from building on Travis CI for free.”