Re:The Pain That Is GitHub Actions
by maratc on Thursday March 20, 2025 @10:38AM
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Your attitude of "how is everyone so stupid" does not help the discussion.
> It's a DSL. There is no execution, only configuration.
Jenkins pipelines are also DSL. I still can print out debugging information from them. "It's a DSL" is not an excuse for being a special case of shitty DSL.
> any intro tutorial on the subject will eventually teach you
Do these tutorials have a chapter on what to do when you join a company with 500 engineers and a ton of YAMLs that are not written in that way?
> you should move those instructions to a shell script to make them testable
Yeah, no. How am I supposed to test my script that is supposed to run on Github-supplied runner with a ton of injected secrets and Github-supplied JSON of 10,000 lines, when I don’t have the runner, the secrets, or the JSON?
> It's a DSL. There is no execution, only configuration.
Jenkins pipelines are also DSL. I still can print out debugging information from them. "It's a DSL" is not an excuse for being a special case of shitty DSL.
> any intro tutorial on the subject will eventually teach you
Do these tutorials have a chapter on what to do when you join a company with 500 engineers and a ton of YAMLs that are not written in that way?
> you should move those instructions to a shell script to make them testable
Yeah, no. How am I supposed to test my script that is supposed to run on Github-supplied runner with a ton of injected secrets and Github-supplied JSON of 10,000 lines, when I don’t have the runner, the secrets, or the JSON?