Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI

Re:Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI by hctaw on Thursday April 15, 2021 @04:51PM (#26825966)

It doesn't help the yaml ui/ux is awful.

   - if ${{ github.event_name == 'why do you think this is acceptable?" }}
      run:|
         echo "I need programmatic CI no matter how much you think I don't"

Just let us write our entire pipelines in typescript. People are already using Actions for bitcoin mining, hosting porn, or whatever - if I can do arbitrary shell stuff you're not making my life easier by putting it behind a yaml DSL pretending to be "no code."

If it were just typescript with a reasonable library we could run and debug it locally without jumping through hoops.

/rant

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Re:Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI by dzhiurgis on Thursday April 15, 2021 @08:57PM (#26828074)

I don't get it how Python exists. Even with the best IDE support writing YAML is a misery.

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Re:Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI by m45t3r on Thursday April 15, 2021 @10:21PM (#26828644)

I write Python for years (including messing code) and never feel the pain I found when I edit an even a slightly complicated YAML file.

The issue is not really the significant indentation of YAML, it is more of the ambiguity of the syntax plus the fact that YAML is a serialization format so it doesn't have many ways to reduce repetition. Now those issues coupled with the significant indentation makes YAML a mess, but those issues doesn't exist in Python.

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Re:Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI by OJFord on Thursday April 15, 2021 @08:30PM (#26827890)

What CI/CD system other than Jenkins uses a configuration format that isn't YAML?

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Re:Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI by hctaw on Thursday April 15, 2021 @09:10PM (#26828173)

Team City. But Jenkins is still king.

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Re:Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI by OJFord on Friday April 16, 2021 @12:28PM (#26835929)

I think one either loves it or hates it..

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Re:Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI by detaro on Friday April 16, 2021 @03:14PM (#26837919)

Buildbot

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Re:Work with GitHub Actions in Your Terminal with GitHub CLI by kbar13 on Thursday April 15, 2021 @07:03PM (#26827279)

yup and with proper IDE support as well

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