Adding first project, "Start Building" button returns "Failed"

[peterjc]

I am trying to setup my first project using CircleCI, having built up experience with related services from TravisCI and AppVeyor.

Specifically this is a Python 2.7 project (due to upstream dependencies) on GitHub on a public repository, and I have created a simple .circleci/config.yml file on a new (temporary) branch circleci which passes local validation:

$ circleci version
0.1.3541+215b0f9
$ circleci config validate
Config file at .circleci/config.yml is valid.

Through the CircleCI website I have logged in using GitHub, and have selected this project from my personal account (not one of the organisations I have access too) via “Add Projects”, selected Linux, Python and then clicked on “Start Building”. Within about a second the button switches to “Building” and then “Failed”.

Is there a way to see why this failed? Right now my only guess is that .circleci/config.yml needs to exist on the default branch, which I would prefer to avoid at this point.

[peterjc]

TravisCI have just tweeted https://twitter.com/traviscistatus/status/1054367422696775682

`[status] Monitoring: We are still waiting for GitHub to restart sending webhooks for repository/commit events. We will post an update as soon as this happens. Thank you for your patience. https://www.traviscistatus.com/incidents/z5qn5d4q1nzq?u=807q9lsf6lk3

This might explain why CircleCI is also not working for me?

[FelicianoTech]

I believe so yes. Their status page says they have pauses all webhooks: https://status.github.com/messages

[peterjc]

Confirmed - the seemingly stuck UI almost certainly due to the GitHub outage yesterday.

Today https://status.circleci.com/ reports all systems go.

Clicking “Start Building” worked today, initially building the master branch which of course failed (no CircleCI configuration file). I then updated my circleci branch and that also ran (and failed, but I have a useful log to work from).

Thank you!