Scheduled Wheels Builds on Windows

[tylerjereddy]

This came up in pandas-dev/pandas#26546

Both NumPy and SciPy only do scheduled builds on Travis (Linux / Mac) but not on Appveyor (Windows), so regular master branch wheels / binaries are not available consistently on Windows for i.e., debugging downstream, etc.

It looks like appveyor team wants to be contacted directly by OSS projects that want scheduled builds to avoid wasted cycles on abandoned projects with scheduled builds.

See also: https://www.appveyor.com/docs/build-configuration/#scheduled-builds

Not sure if it is much easier on Azure or not.

[mattip]

Azure pipelines has scheduled triggers. I am not sure how this plays with the regular pr trigger. I can try to set this up.

[tylerjereddy]

Maybe not a bad idea--of course, switching some / much of the wheel build infrastructure to Azure will probably come at some cost with new problems initially.

[charris]

Closing. This should be fixed with the move to azure.