Re:Travis CI is no longer providing CI minutes for open sour...
by znpy on Monday December 07, 2020 @07:31PM
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> Running arbitrary code on a distributed network of end user PCs
It's a bit more complicated than that.
I run gitlab and gitlab runners for a living, I can tell.
First thing first, you'd have to register a runner with a specific project. So no "arbitrary code".
Second thing, unless you can push a branch to the project main repository, no pipeline is ran. So for your own personal forks you'd either rely on gitlab.com-provided free minutes or you run your own runner (and tbh, it's fairly easy).
Last thing: you should not think of regular end-users. Think of middle to advanced users, that have a home server or something like that (homelabbers?).
It's a bit more complicated than that.
I run gitlab and gitlab runners for a living, I can tell.
First thing first, you'd have to register a runner with a specific project. So no "arbitrary code".
Second thing, unless you can push a branch to the project main repository, no pipeline is ran. So for your own personal forks you'd either rely on gitlab.com-provided free minutes or you run your own runner (and tbh, it's fairly easy).
Last thing: you should not think of regular end-users. Think of middle to advanced users, that have a home server or something like that (homelabbers?).