Re: Cirrus CI to shut down

On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 01:06:24PM -0600, Alan Somers wrote:
> Cirrus CI is the best cloud CI platform for FreeBSD projects (as well
> as most other operating systems).  And I'm proud to have been Cirrus'
> first beta user running FreeBSD.  But alas, it's no more.  Cirrus will
> be shutting down permanently on June 1.  I've feared this day for a
> long time, due to the lack of evident new development.  But it doesn't
> mean that I'm not disappointed.  I guess we'll all have to switch our
> projects to Github Workflows now, even though it's far less efficient
> where FreeBSD is concerned.
> 
> RIP, Cirrus

:(  It's been an extremely useful service despite the various
limitations.  A number of the checks aren't replicated elsewhere so
we're at risk of losing relative stability of a number of things,
particularly around generated files we commit to the tree.

Incidentally, as part of supporting CHERI upstreaming to FreeBSD, The
Capable Hub has reimplemented the Cirrus CI scripts to run on their own
AWS backed CI infrastructure.  You can see the basic bits here:

https://github.com/CHERI-Alliance/freebsd-src/compare/main...CHERI-Alliance:freebsd-src:main-ci

That doesn't include the backend (which is a github app), but someone
might find the overall refactoring useful and I'm confident The Capable
Hub would share the app if someone one wanted to set it up for the
FreeBSD project.

-- Brooks