Check if CircleCi is still used

[wileyj]

from readme, circleci image is 404'ing https://circleci.com/gh/blockstack/stacks-blockchain/tree/master. Is this CI tool still used ? i see the circleci yaml, and a Dockerfile but there's no action using them and the circle links are not working https://github.com/stacks-network/stacks-blockchain#stacks-20

TODO: check if circleci is still in use. if yes, update links etc in the readme. if not in use, then we can remove all references to circleci and Hiro can disable any jobs still there.

[jcnelson]

Consensus here is "no." CircleCI invoked our unit tests using cargo test --workspace, whereas previously unit tests in GH actions invoked cargo test. But because develop broke the workspace into more modules, GH needed to invoke cargo test --workspace anyway, so CircleCI doesn't do anything useful for us anymore. We can remove CircleCI support in the next release (or even now).

[wileyj]

@igorsyl

[diwakergupta]

The last activity on https://app.circleci.com/pipelines/github/stacks-network/stacks-blockchain was 3 months ago. Is it safe to cancel the paid plan (which Hiro is currently paying for) and close this issue? cc/ @jcnelson @kantai

[kantai]

Yes, let's close it.

[kantai]

Should this file be deleted before we close this issue?

https://github.com/stacks-network/stacks-blockchain/blob/master/circle.yml

[diwakergupta]

Nothing has run on CircleCI for ~11mo, so yeah let's do it. I'm happy to take this on ;)