[python-committers] Travis CI: macOS is now blocking -- remove macOS from Travis CI?

[Antoine Pitrou]

For the record:
https://blog.travis-ci.com/2017-09-22-macos-update

Regards

Antoine.


Le 01/09/2017 à 19:15, Victor Stinner a écrit :
> Hi,
> 
> Since today, it seems like the macOS task of a Travis CI job to
> validate a pull request hangs the whole job.
> 
> Don't try to cancel the macOS job, or the whole job will be marked as
> failed! ... even if macOS is in the "Allowed Failure" section. I don't
> know the best way to "repair" such job. I use "restart job" which
> restarts all tasks, even the completed *and successful* Linux and doc
> jobs.
> 
> I have PRs waiting for longer than 2 hours for Travis CI. The macOS
> job is seen as "queued".
> 
> Yesterday, it was possible to merge a PR even if the macOS job was
> still queued (no started).
> 
> I never wait for macOS, since, as I wrote, it can take longer than 1
> hour. Moreover, macOS failures are not reported to the GitHub UI :-(
> (Hum, in fact, I'm not sure about that.)
> 
> Maybe we should remove the pre-commit macOS task from the Travis CI
> config to focus on post-commit macOS buildbots? If we remove it,
> should we remove it from 2.7, 3.6 and master branches?
> 
> We have 3 macOS buildbots:
> 
> * x86 Tiger 3.x
> * x86-64 El Capitan 3.x
> * x86-64 Sierra 3.x
> 
> All three are currently green ;-)
> 
> In the last 3 months, the macOS task of Travis CI caused multiple issues :-/
> 
> Victor
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