GitHub Actions could be so much better

Re:GitHub Actions could be so much better by taeric on Friday September 22, 2023 @12:35PM (#37614183)

I'd assume you would be able to publish and deploy locally before setting up actions. Such that those are likely targets in your build system?

Caching, I can mostly understand as unique there. Though, I think I'm living with whatever the default stuff in actions is. Slow for builds that don't happen often, of course, but not so slow that I care.

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Re:GitHub Actions could be so much better by Tainnor on Friday September 22, 2023 @07:19PM (#37619034)

Unfortunately, my team has some builds that take ~25 min without caching and maybe 2 min with caching.

I'm still not entirely sure why it's the case, but the connection to the package registry is incredibly slow, so downloading all dependencies takes forever.

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Re:GitHub Actions could be so much better by taeric on Friday September 22, 2023 @07:51PM (#37619247)

I'm fortunate that worrying about 25 minute builds just doesn't matter. The long pole on all builds is still the code review that goes with it, such that I just don't care about getting that time too low here.

That is, I am assuming that a CI build is not on the immediate dev loop, such that the person pushing it doesn't have to wait for the build before they prepare a review on it.

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