[dpdk-ci] query about Travis CI running status

[Aaron Conole]

Honnappa Nagarahalli <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com> writes:

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> Thanks for keeping this off the list, I was not comfortable discussing things on the list 😊
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>> Hello,
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>> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 3:18 PM Honnappa Nagarahalli
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>> <Honnappa.Nagarahalli at arm.com> wrote:
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>> > > > On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 8:28 AM Ruifeng Wang
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>> > > > > Can you tell whether Travis CI is still running or have been disabled?
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>> > > > > It seems there is no Travis build since Dec 16, 2020.
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>> > > > > https://travis-ci.com/github/ovsrobot/dpdk/builds
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>> > > > > I think now DPDK can use Travis CI as usual as a result of Arm’s
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>> > > > communication with Travis.
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>> > > > > DPDK should be on a whitelist and free from credit issue.
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>> > > > Can you share details on this?
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>> > > > Do you mean the main DPDK/dpdk repo gets free credits?
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>> > It is the main repo: https://github.com/DPDK/dpdk
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>> I re-enabled a weekly build in the cron settings and set the "build on push"
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>> option for the main repository DPDK/dpdk.
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>> Travis started one build for the weekly schedule, which got cancelled with
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>> "Owner DPDK does not have enough credits.".
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>> I then merged a simple fix in the main repo, Travis triggered a job which got
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>> cancelled with the same message.
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>> So I disabled all of Travis jobs again for DPDK/dpdk (no weekly build, no build on
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>> > > > Or the ovsrobot/DPDK? or both?
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>> > This was not requested. Which one do we need?
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>> I'd like to hear about others but for me, ovsrobot/dpdk is the more important
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>> (and the more credits-hungry btw).
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>> DPDK/dpdk is a bonus.
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>> > > > What of other individual's forks?
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>> > I have not discussed this.
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>> > Is this required? May be at least for the maintainers?
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>> I wanted to know what had been discussed/agreed with Travis.
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>> This is not required, but nice for contributors.
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> I definitely agree, this is good to have. The discussion has been happening between Arm Ecosystem development team and
> Travis. So, info on how things are implemented is scarce. I had provided the link to DPDK/dpdk github and it was supposed
> to be on the 'allow list' and being monitored by Travis Support to ensure that credits are getting topped off. I will pass this
> email to our team and see what they say.
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> We are also working on getting Arm owned GitLab instance integrated. It should happen in the next 3 months (there are
> other projects too which are affected). I had planned for DPDK/dpdk, but I will change it to ovsrobot/dpdk. I will check to see
> if we can provide access to maintainers. This will be a permanent solution.

That's good to know.  We have been discussing internally what to do when
Github Actions inevitably goes the same way as Travis (pay $$$ or no
builds), and I'm happy to hear that you have a permanent solution in
mind.

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>> > > Sorry I don't know how the whitelist works in detail. Need to check
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>> > > and get back.
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>> > > Just wanted to know if Travis CI had chance to run.
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>> > > > > Just want to know if it works as expected.
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>> > > > From the webui, I still see a complaint on missing credits for
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>> > > > DPDK/dpdk and ovsrobot/dpdk, but I can't tell if this warning is
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>> > > > linked to my
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>> > Can you please provide a link to this?
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>> You can see here:
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>> https://travis-ci.com/github/DPDK/dpdk/requests
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>> https://travis-ci.com/github/ovsrobot/dpdk/requests
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>> David Marchand