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Re:VSCodium – Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code by benatkin on Monday September 04, 2023 @03:05PM (#37383811)
> low effort/high reward

Are there any shared actions that aren't actions/name-of-project? If not, that's zero reward.

Re:VSCodium – Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code by danpalmer on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @06:11AM (#37389879)
I'm not sure I follow why the "official" actions under the actions org are materially different to others? I agree they're likely to have better processes around contributions, but they are fundamentally an open contribution model with human review, and human review is fallible. Unless they had extra sandboxing, pinning requirements, materially better testing, etc, I'm not sure there's a huge difference.
Re:VSCodium – Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code by benatkin on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @11:19AM (#37392852)
No, PR review isn't the only thing that prevents these from being updated. In the yml it's set to a release branch. So it isn't especially fallible.

https://github.com/actions/setup-node/tree/releases/v2

Re:VSCodium – Libre Open Source Software Binaries of VS Code by benatkin on Tuesday September 05, 2023 @08:12PM (#37399629)
However, the Linux one grabs two from third party, to GitHub, repos. These seem relatively safe, from official systems level projects — snapcraft and docker. I'm going to suggest to Codium they add a SHA to pin those, just like I would suggest they unpin GitHub Actions if they'd had them pinned. Sorry I was looking at the Mac one because I have a Mac even though the link up the thread was for Linux.