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GitHub Actions isn't free

• exdsq 4y ago
  It is for most startups, but not megacorp which has the money anyway. I’ve never gotten close to hitting the CI minutes cap in companies < 100 engineers.
  • synu 4y ago
    The cap is 2000, will 50 engineers for example really only need 40 minutes of build time each in an entire month? That’s like 5-10 builds, depending on your build duration.. just one or two a week or so. You might use all that up in a single pull request. In a really productive month my two person startup had to buy more minutes.
    • exdsq 4y ago
      I could have sworn it was more, but fair enough! I do heavily optimize CI to reduce minutes though, with easy access to local tests (and git hooks to enforce these) and more thorough tests ran nightly on merged branches.
  • timvdalen 4y ago
    Well, a certain level is included in the price, but that doesn't mean it's free. That level is also quite low if you really want to use it.
• jacooper 4y ago
  For open source projects(my use case) it is.