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Re:GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners... by alexellisuk on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @02:58AM (#46299349)
It sounds like you'd be better off self-hosting Jenkins. The other issue with GHA is they cap all runs at 6 hours.

Despite what people say about "maintaining" Jenkins (whatever that means to them personally) - you can set it up in an IaaC way including the jobs. You can migrate/create jobs en masse via its API (I did this about 10 years ago for a large US company converting from what was then called TFS)

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Re:GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners... by gallexme on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @07:45AM (#46301348)
I'll likely check out buildbot or just switch to gitlab
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Re:GitHub will begin charging for self-hosted action runners... by franktankbank on Wednesday December 17, 2025 @11:45AM (#46301890)
What problem does Jenkins solve? When we got jenkins working how we wanted it was a giant groovy script that was handling checkout manually.
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