Reasons we want to get rid of VSTS

[msprotz]

• Does not build pull requests and sometimes fails to trigger on every push
• Hard to trigger a new build job for someone who doesn't have login info
• Output buffer overflow when there's too much build log output
• Can't see beginning of the build log until it's completely done / no support for scrollback on the web interface buffer
• Can't get a direct URL to build logs
• No primitive support for slack notifications
• Dashboard cannot show state for a given branch
• Relies on a windows machine that has a lot of state (instead of hyper-v vm)

[msprotz]

We should start an investigation of alternative solutions like AppVeyor.

[msprotz]

From Nik:

• need more queues
• linux agent needs to be fixed
• better granularity of how long each task took (scripting on top of build infrastructure)