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Dumb question, but why hasn’t GitHub made a solution that lets you run GitHub Actions locally? Or at the very least a solution that validates the action (giving

by nomilk 1y ago

Dumb question, but why hasn’t GitHub made a solution that lets you run GitHub Actions locally? Or at the very least a solution that validates the action (giving a bit more certainty that it will succeed, a bit like a dry-run)? (My war story:) I stopped using GHAs after an optimistic attempt to save myself five key strokes ‘r’ ‘s’ ‘p’ ‘e’ ‘c’ led to 40+ commits and seeing the sunrise but still no successful test run via GHA. Headless browsers can be fragile but the cost benefit ratio against using GHA was horrible, at least for an indy dev.

immibis 1y ago
Why would GitHub (a Microsoft service) want you to be less dependent on GitHub? That just makes the extinguishing part harder.
- deleted 1y ago
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timewizard 1y ago
They do. Your action can be empty and actions generate webhook events. Do whatever you want with the webhook.
- SOLAR_FIELDS 1y ago
  It’s the allure of the marketplace that gets people. They’re like “oh I could parse my test report files and upload all of them somewhere and render them with a nice output on my pr! I could spend a week writing and testing all of this or I can slap this action here into the YAML and be done with it in 10 minutes. The trap and tradeoff is that the thirtieth time you’ve done that is when you realize you’ve screwed yourself and the organization by building this Byzantine half baked DAG with a very sketchy security story that you can’t step through, run locally or test
digianarchist 1y ago
Like https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/ https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/ ?
- mdaniel 1y ago
  I'm as big a GitLab fanboy as they come, but they recently axed the gitlab-runner binary's ability to execute local .gitlab-ci.yml files <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/385235 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/385235>. It now only operates in "receive webhook from the mothership" mode, just like GHA Pour one out, I guess, but it's okay since I previously was super angry at it for languishing in the uncanny valley of "hello world works, practically nothing else does" -- more or less like nektos/act and its bazillions of forks
  - digianarchist 1y ago
    Disappointing. That was very useful for troubleshooting issues.

by nomilk 1y ago

immibis 1y ago

Why would GitHub (a Microsoft service) want you to be less dependent on GitHub? That just makes the extinguishing part harder.

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timewizard 1y ago

They do. Your action can be empty and actions generate webhook events. Do whatever you want with the webhook.

SOLAR_FIELDS 1y ago
It’s the allure of the marketplace that gets people. They’re like “oh I could parse my test report files and upload all of them somewhere and render them with a nice output on my pr! I could spend a week writing and testing all of this or I can slap this action here into the YAML and be done with it in 10 minutes. The trap and tradeoff is that the thirtieth time you’ve done that is when you realize you’ve screwed yourself and the organization by building this Byzantine half baked DAG with a very sketchy security story that you can’t step through, run locally or test

digianarchist 1y ago

Like https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/ https://docs.gitlab.com/runner/ ?

mdaniel 1y ago
I'm as big a GitLab fanboy as they come, but they recently axed the gitlab-runner binary's ability to execute local .gitlab-ci.yml files <https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/385235 https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab/-/issues/385235>. It now only operates in "receive webhook from the mothership" mode, just like GHA Pour one out, I guess, but it's okay since I previously was super angry at it for languishing in the uncanny valley of "hello world works, practically nothing else does" -- more or less like nektos/act and its bazillions of forks
- digianarchist 1y ago
  Disappointing. That was very useful for troubleshooting issues.