Travis CI free usage ends Dec 3; mozilla repos should switch to other CI platforms

[hwine]

We're opening this issue because your project has used Travis CI within the last 6 months. If you have already migrated off it, you can close and ignore this issue.

Travis CI is ending free builds on public repositories. travis-ci.com stopped providingthem in early November, and travis-ci.org will stop after December 31, 2020. To avoid disruptions to your workflows, you must migrate to another CI service.

For production use cases, we recommend switching to CircleCI. This service is already widely used within Mozilla. There is a guide to migrating from Travis CI to CircleCI available here.

For non production use cases, we recommend either CircleCI or Github Actions. There is a guide to migrating from Travis CI to Github Actions available here. Github Actions usage within Mozilla is new, and you will have to work with our github administrators to enable specific actions following this process.

If you have any questions, reach out in #github-admin:mozilla.org on matrix.

[whimboo]

@hwine not sure I understand. By reading the article for travis-ci.org I don't see that they stop offering free service for open source projects. As mentioned projects from that domain will be ported over to travis-ci.com, but will remain free. See this particular sentence:

Open-source projects will be free as they always have, with lighting fast builds provided by partners like Packet.

So why should we move away from testing with Travis-CI?

[hwine]

Because they keep changing their story -- see "Building on a [sic] public repositories only" from their 2020-11-20 post. Since the credits are a global resource, we have no idea when they will be consumed. When they are, your CI stops.

[whimboo]

Here is how mozregression transitioned over to Github Action: mozilla/mozregression#834.

[salilmishra23]

Hey whimboo! I can take up the task for moving the CI to Github Actions.

[whimboo]

@salilmishra23 that would be very very appreciated!! Right now it's really a big blocker on getting PR's tested.