Re: [PATCH] Add GitLab CI to PostgreSQL

On Thu, Jul 6, 2023 at 11:27 AM Daniel Gustafsson <daniel@yesql.se> wrote:
>
> > On 6 Jul 2023, at 20:10, Gurjeet Singh <gurjeet@singh.im> wrote:
>
> > I can
> > imagine if cfbot was developed against some other CI, it's very likely
> > that we'd be using that other CI instead of Cirrus.
>
> The CFBot originally used Travis, but switched in late 2020 when Travis almost
> over night become hard to use for open source projects:
>
>   https://github.com/macdice/cfbot/commit/a62aa6d77dd4cc7f0a5549db378cd6f1cf25c0e2

Thanks for providing the historical context! A for-profit entity,
despite their best intentions, and sometimes by no fault of their own,
may not survive. It's not that a non-profits are guaranteed to
survive, but the conditions they operate in are drastically different
than those of for-profit ones.

> These systems come and go, and each have their quirks.

I'm sure the community has seen enough of such disappearances over the
years, which is why I was surprised to see the adoption of Cirrus in
core (after I had stopped paying attention to Postgres hackers list
for a few years). Having read that whole discussion, though, I do see
the immense value Cirrus CI provides.

> Having options is good,
> but maintaining multiple ones isn't necessarily a free fire-and-forget type of
> thing for the community.

By not adopting  at least one other CI, it'd seem like the community
is favoring Cirrus over others; and that doesn't feel good.

Best regards,
Gurjeet
http://Gurje.et