Badges are slow and fail
bradennapier opened this issue · 5 comments
Why are the badges taking like 3-5 seconds or more to load and most of the time at leastone fails completely!?
it has not loaded the badges properly in the last 5+ updates
https://shields.io could be slow.
All this project does is render the badges. Serving the badges is handled by whichever host is serving them. As @RobLoach has stated, we use shields.io for most of our badges. Here is their GitHub if you want to post, a hopefully more polite, issue there: https://github.com/badges/shields
Community driven open-source is people in their spare time working together as a team, to make things better for people for free. It requires a team spirit, of cooperation, collaboration, and gratefulness. If you are after the entitlement of guarantees from others, open-source is not the place - as free time servitude is a voluntary best effort thing, rather than a paid to be obliged thing.
That said, I appreciate the badges failing or being slow is annoying. I've spotted it before. But we are all doing our best, in our spare time. Mixing in some praise/gratefulness with a complaint can go far with keeping in the spirit of what keeps in the open-source machine alive and well. Otherwise, it is not that fun, for any of us.
@balupton my bad! I did not try to sound rude or anything, was multi-tasking and just posted it asap in case something was up or I was doing something incorrectly. It appears to have been due to a travisci build running -- once it finished the badges were fast which was a bit odd!
Thanks for the package, automating all this stuff definitely makes handling micro-package environments far nicer.