[boost] Purchasing Travis Resources for boostorg (was Re: [1.65.0] Point release?)

Subject: [boost] Purchasing Travis Resources for boostorg (was Re: [1.65.0] Point release?)
From: Tom Kent (lists_at_[hidden])
Date: 2017-08-27 12:21:34

On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 1:16 PM, Daniel James via Boost <
boost_at_[hidden]> wrote:

> On 26 August 2017 at 18:02, Peter Dimov via Boost <boost_at_[hidden]>
> wrote:
> > Daniel James wrote:
>

> > But we don't rely that much on the testers nowadays, so this would be
> less
> > of an issue.
>
> I do. The turnaround on Travis is pretty terrible at the moment, and
> that's going to get worse as more modules use it.

While I'm a big fan of Boost's test system, and believe that it is an
awesome resource that can't be replicated on the common CI services (lots
of platforms and compiler versions/configs!), I also think that good
per-commit CI on a service like travis is hugely important. Maybe someone
should present a proposal to the steering committee to start paying for
boostorg's account to have additional build resources?

Tom