[lifeofguenter]

Running something locally is not necessarily free either. Even if maybe the "host" is for free (which I can not imagine, unless someone throw something at you), it will still require your time to setup and ensure its running.

For private/small open source projects I would highly welcome such a pricing tier from travis-ci but 69USD is just not in my pocket (not saying its unjustified though!).

For larger open-source projects that rely on many builds throughout the day/month, this might be a bigger problem.

So while its "free" marketing, it might be much more crucial to our open-source structure than we think it is (which might be a problem as well).

And I think we can all agree: open source software is an important part not only for the industry but our lives :)

[mellyjelly]

This is part of the reason open source is so important, but should be enough on its own to argue that free services should exist: these CI services have been an important piece of education, which should be free.

[quickthrower2]

I use a bunch of different CI at work and they are great but if they are offline you are stuffed as they are not portable and running local while possible is a nightmare.

Containers are a solution for this right? If I was open source I’d run CI in docker or similar so you can easily run it locally or on a server.

The assumption is people doing FOSS can’t afford maybe $20 a year to spend on some kind of elastic compute to run this or don’t have a computer powerful enough to run it. I doubt this is the case and if it is just do without CI - just run your tests from IDE before pushing to master.