> instead of stealing TravisCIs ideas (cough GitHub Actions Cough)
Not sure how you come to that conclusion. Even _if_ that were true, that would probably be a good thing now that TravisCI is on life support.
Not sure how you come to that conclusion. Even _if_ that were true, that would probably be a good thing now that TravisCI is on life support.
There is a third party orb that attempts to do this, but it costs significant numbers of build credits to run as it implements queueing of builds as busy-waiting, plus we've got evidence that there are bugs in it as we have seen out of order deployments.
It's very difficult or near impossible to build edge-triggered features based on build states. We want to be able to notify when the build goes red, notify for every red build, and notify when it goes green again, and just for the master/deployed branch. This is not possible (you either get all builds or no builds).
There is again a third party orb that implements some of this, but it's pretty inflexible.
We've had them remove features we were sold on. Not huge features, but we were told their billing worked one way, budgeted for it, and then they changed that because they couldn't get it to work correctly. They didn't tell us about this, except for just failing our builds as we were under provisioned on users.
Their support takes on average around 2 working days to respond, and often requires chasing to get a response. Once they do respond it's typically a fairly shallow response without much information, or that has misunderstood the issue, and so queries often take multiple rounds to get help on.
They sell a premium support package, but that is pitched as more about helping you to use the service better and I have an objection to paying for support in getting the service to work in the way it should.
1) It's a feature that is fundamental to continuous delivery that is missing, yet CircleCI market themselves as a CI and CD product. I think they need to be more realistic in conversations with customers, in their documentation, in their marketing material, etc, and give significant time in their documentation to workarounds and discussion of the issue.
2) They need to seriously work on their customer communication about the prioritisation system they use. Being constantly told to vote on "ideas" (when they are essentially bug fixes) is quite insulting, and as a customer makes me feel like my input is trivial, it's "nice to haves", rather than being something that genuinely matters to me. They need to have some empathy! Communicating more about the roadmap would be great. Maybe even communicating about all the things from the community site that they are doing each month would be an improvement. Right now it feels like being told our input doesn't matter.