aww sad news about cirrus ci and free runner use https://cirrus-ci.org/blog/2023/07/17/limiting-free-usage-of-cirrus-ci/

Maybe we should use our $$ to pay for the service? We get value from it.

yeah i think so. you can get it hooked up with github actions and use a self hosted runner. i wonder if it’s just cheaper to buy a couple of mac minis and use them as private self hosted runners. but for now might just be worth paying something just for ease, (you can use cirrus-cli in gh actions so we can still retain the .cirrus.yml files we have today, and it still means people can use the tool locally to recreate the ci runs)

How much is it? We have lots in the kitty, and I’d be happy to commit some $$ to paying for them until GH actions supports ARM/Mac etc. properly (if it’s not drastically expensive)

I shall get a tracking issue, can look at last months use, and then ascertain indicative cost and alternatives

Time is our most precious resource, so I’d rather us spend our time on the things the community most needs (e.g. Python, .NET upgraded to V4/Plugins, bugs squashed, documentation made betterer).

agreed 110%

hmmm so that would be $117 for Mac credits + $15 for Linux = $132 /mth 👀

Hah I am trying to make sense of that. I think that is correct. 1 compute is 1 dollar, macos is 5 times more expensive