[FLINK-20161] Consider switching from Travis CI to Github Actions for flink-statefun's CI workflows

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: statefun-2.2.2, statefun-3.0.0
• Component/s: Build System / CI, Stateful Functions
• Labels: pull-request-available
• Assignee: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
• Reporter: Tzu-Li (Gordon) Tai
• Created: 14/Nov/20 05:32
• Updated: 27/Apr/21 18:03
• Resolved: 17/Nov/20 04:51

Description

Travis-CI.com recently announced a new pricing model on Nov. 2, which affects public open source projects: https://blog.travis-ci.com/2020-11-02-travis-ci-new-billing

While its a bit unclear if Travis CI repos under travis-ci.com/github/apache is affected by this, this will definitely affect contributors who fork our repositories and enable Travis CI on their fork for development purposes.

Github Actions seems to be a popular alternative nowadays:

• No limited test time with its hosted builders, if repo is public
• Activation is automatic - one step / click less for contributors to get CI running for their forks

Given that the CI workflows in flink-statefun is very minimal right now, we propose to make the switch to Github Actions as the efforts to do that should be relatively trivial.

Issue Links

• links to: GitHub Pull Request #174