All three companies I worked for that ended up paying for a beefy Travis CI enterprise plan did so after getting hooked through the open source offering and wanting more concurrent runners and faster builds.
Without that funnel, and knowing it's all integrated deeply in both GitLab and GitHub, I wonder where Travis CI could ever expect growth again... but that's probably not the end goal anymore, just milking the current paying clients and maintaining the status quo.
"that's probably not the end goal anymore, just milking the current paying clients and maintaining the status quo."
Yep, that's private equity. I won't forget it again.
If it makes less and less profit every year even that's probably fine, eventually they'll shut it down, as long as they made back a multiple of what they paid by that point, then it was a good investment.
It's sad to me just as an engineer, that travis is actually really well-built product, it works magnificently and sets a high bar for ease of use, because of many hours of work that developers who cared put into it... and it's now just going to be allowed to slowly sink into the sea.
Without that funnel, and knowing it's all integrated deeply in both GitLab and GitHub, I wonder where Travis CI could ever expect growth again... but that's probably not the end goal anymore, just milking the current paying clients and maintaining the status quo.