[DISCUSS] Move to GitHub Actions

[Florian Hockmann]

Hi,

Travis CI has recently announced that they will only offer 1000 build minutes / month for OSS projects. Given that our builds currently take ~10h, we would only be able to execute around 2 builds per month of our main repository. While the linked
blog post also mentions the possibility to request more free build minutes, I'm not sure whether we want to rely on that and how realistic it is that they will provide us with enough build minutes. (Just to give an example: We would need around 50,000 build minutes per month to be able to execute 3 builds per day.)

To make matters worse, we're still on travis-ci.org which will be abandoned at the end of this year in favor of travis-ci.com. So, even if we want to stay with Travis, we would need to migrate our projects over from travis-ci.org to travis-ci.com.

Given these policy changes by Travis CI, I propose that we migrate to GitHub Actions which seems to be much more OSS friendly nowadays and which probably also allows us to better parallelize and therefore speed up our builds. It allows up to 20 concurrent jobs with a maximum runtime of 6h per job. This should also make it easier to execute the TinkerPop tests for more backends.

Any thoughts or concerns on this topic?

PS: For a bit more context about the changes in Travis CI for OSS projects, I recommend this blog post which made me aware of this in the first place.

[faro...@googlemail.com]

Hi

I did a small evaluation of GitHub Actions in February. GitHub Actions didn't allowed to run to open source project unlimited time at this time. This changed in April.

Old results can be found here.

Greetings,

Jan

[Oleksandr Porunov]

Hi,

Moving to GitHub actions seems to be a good idea but we need to understand our limitations. This link says that GitHub actions gives us 2000 minutes per month:

https://docs.github.com/en/free-pro-team@latest/github/setting-up-and-managing-billing-and-payments-on-github/about-billing-for-github-actions

Best regards,

Oleksandr

[Jan.J...@gdata.de]

Hi

I’m pretty sure about our limitations, which are just 20 concurrent runner at the same time for all public repos. The 2000 minutes are just for private repos (no build time limit for public repos).

Greetings, 

Jan 

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[Oleksandr Porunov]

Hi,

If that's the case, as for me it's obvious way to go.

+1 for moving to GitHub Actions

Best regards,

Oleksandr

[Lakshay Rastogi]

What would be required in terms of development in order to move to GitHub actions? 

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[Jan.J...@gdata.de]

Currently, we have 6 repos with CI pipeline. So we have to convert all of the repos with a CI pipeline.

I already checkout how do you convert a dotnet project. I think will be helpful to do a step by step migration.
We should start with the small projects and than go to the main project.

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[faro...@googlemail.com]

I created an example for GitHub Actions by converting the foundation db travis ci to github actions.

I also add two extra workflow to check a editorconfig and check for license header which can be copied over to all of our repos.

What do you think of GitHub Actions?

[Florian Hockmann]

OK, looks like we have a consensus on moving to GitHub Actions. Then we can start with the migration now.

> I created an example for GitHub Actions by converting the foundation db travis ci to github actions.

> I also add two extra workflow to check a editorconfig and check for license header which can be copied over to all of our repos.

> What do you think of GitHub Actions?

Thanks, Jan, for working on this already so we have an example to see GitHub Actions working on one of our repos. I think it looks really promising! It's also nice to see how easy it is to add such additional checks.

I would though recommend that we don't do all at once in a single PR as that makes them harder to review and instead create follow-up PRs for the editorconfig and the license check. Adding these checks bloats the PR a bit as files unrelated to CI now need to be modified to get the checks green.