The CI times out after 10 minutes of no output. It's annoying if a
test hangs and is killed by the CI timeout, because you don't get
information about which test was running. Try to avoid that, by adding
a slightly smaller timeout in pytest itself. You can override it on a
per-test basis if needed, but let's try to keep our tests shorter than
that.
For the Postgres regression tests, use a longer 30 minute timeout.
They're not really a single test, but many tests wrapped in a single
pytest test. It's OK for them to run longer in aggregate, each
Postgres test is still fairly short.
Mainly because it has better support for installing the packages from
different python versions.
It also has better dependency resolver than Pipenv. And supports modern
standard for python dependency management. This includes usage of
pyproject.toml for project specific configuration instead of per
tool conf files. See following links for details:
https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/reference/build-system/pyproject-toml/https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0518/
