[matplotlib-devel] Usefulness of Travis-CI

[Damon M. <dam...@gm...>]

Hi all,

Recently, it has become more and more common that the travis builds
fail.  They fail not because the test suite fails but because of some
inherent issues with travis itself.  Usually, either the git clone
fails or some other simple shell command fails.  I consider these
'failures' as being false negatives.  While a false negative once or
twice a month would not be anything to worry about, I feel like this
is happening often enough to render the pull request status extremely
unhelpful.

I realise the above is merely my opinion, but I feel that I would be
surprised if others did not find the Travis' false negative hit rate
tiresome.

If practical, I would like to move away from travis and have our test
suite run on a more reliable service.  How do others feel about this?

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