The only good thing about Github Actions is the “marketplace” or that you can publish and find actions. The rest is just… not the way I’d do CI. I’m so glad I don’t have to touch that anymore. Only thing worse than Github CI is Jenkins. *Shudder*
You like the marketplace? I dislike it. Or at least its form. I appreciate that there is sharing of actions.
But I dislike having to navigate between repo and marketplace pages. I dislike that I have to assess who publishes them and inspect whether they and the code are trustworthy, and I have to assess risk or whether to copy or extract the relevant code. (And then you have to add and configure via text and magic strings and look up params elsewhere which of course is a consequence of the tech, not a fault of the marketplace itself.)
I feel it adds so much indirection and diffusion it’s hard to do good trustworthy actions/code well. Which if course stands against it’s usefulness of sharing workflows and actions. I know I’m more concerned and more thorough with that stuff than most people.
I like the concept. It helps with not having to rewrite the same stuff over and over again. It’s like a package registry. Whether it’s implemented well is debatable of course and it’s understandable you don’t like it.
The only good thing about Github Actions is the “marketplace” or that you can publish and find actions. The rest is just… not the way I’d do CI. I’m so glad I don’t have to touch that anymore. Only thing worse than Github CI is Jenkins. *Shudder*
Anti Commercial-AI license
You like the marketplace? I dislike it. Or at least its form. I appreciate that there is sharing of actions.
But I dislike having to navigate between repo and marketplace pages. I dislike that I have to assess who publishes them and inspect whether they and the code are trustworthy, and I have to assess risk or whether to copy or extract the relevant code. (And then you have to add and configure via text and magic strings and look up params elsewhere which of course is a consequence of the tech, not a fault of the marketplace itself.)
I feel it adds so much indirection and diffusion it’s hard to do good trustworthy actions/code well. Which if course stands against it’s usefulness of sharing workflows and actions. I know I’m more concerned and more thorough with that stuff than most people.
I like the concept. It helps with not having to rewrite the same stuff over and over again. It’s like a package registry. Whether it’s implemented well is debatable of course and it’s understandable you don’t like it.
Anti Commercial-AI license