Travis-CI.org has shut down

[jmh530]

On Thursday, 3 June 2021 at 15:08:09 UTC, bachmeier wrote:
> [snip]
>
> In addition to the information you've already been provided 
> about pricing, here's a blog post where they explain the 
> changes:
>
> https://blog.travis-ci.com/2020-11-02-travis-ci-new-billing
>
> They couldn't continue as they did before because that meant 
> they were footing the bill for cryptocurrency operations. All 
> the providers are facing the same issue: 
> https://layerci.com/blog/crypto-miners-are-killing-free-ci/

I don't dispute that crypto mining is a concern, but I find the 
Travis-CI people are a little disingenuous about it. Most 
obviously, if people are consuming too many resources, then warn 
them, or queue their projects, or start banning them. If that 
doesn't work, then move to the pricing model but give enough 
credits every month so that 95% of the formerly free group won't 
have to worry about paying. The fact that every open source 
project I know of is running for the hills from Travis-CI, 
suggests the free credits are not generous enough.