On: GitHub Actions could be so much better

[konschubert]

When GitHub actions came out, I felt bad about myself because I had no desire to learn their new programming language of breaking everything down into multiple small GitHub actions.

I think you explained quite well what I couldn't put my finger on last time: Building every simple workflow out of a pile of 3rd party apps creates a lot of unnecessary complexity.

Since then, I have used GitHub actions for a few projects, but mostly stayed away from re-using and combining actions (except for the obvious use cases of "check out this branch").

[flohofwoe → konschubert]

Github Actions basically only became usable once they started copying features from Gitlab CI. Before that it was an incomprehensible mess.

Compared to Gitlab CI, GH Actions still feels like a toy unfortuantely.