I can’t overstate how much I hate GitHub Actions. I don’t even remember hating any other piece of technology I used. Sure, I still make fun of PHP that I remember from times of PHP41, but even then I didn’t hate it. Merely I found it subpar technology to other emerging at the time (like Ruby on Rails or Django). And yet I hate GitHub Actions.
With Passion2.

Road to Hell
Day before writing these words I was implementing build.rs for my tmplr project. To save you a click - it is a file/project scaffold tool with human readable (and craftable) template files. I (personally) use it very often, given how easy it is to craft new templates, by hand or with aid of the tool, so check it out if you need a similar tool.

  • Jeena@piefed.jeena.netOPEnglish
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    5 hours ago

    We do it in several ‘stages’, we have a check pipeline to just compile a single component and run the unit tests, that takes perhaps 5 minutes.

    Then we build a incremental AOSP build with the change on top. That takes about 40 minutes.

    Then we run the incremental build together with all the other changes for the Das and Do a manual smoke test that the most important stuff works and when it does only then we merge all those changes from the previous day. That takes about two to three hours.

    Then there is the nightly test where we build the latest main branch and do static code analysis. That takes forever like 4 hours or so.

    Then there are release builds from scratch which also run all the google compliance tests for AOSP and those things run practically for more than a day.

    It’s a interesting test of your personal patiance :D. But I don’t think it’s possible to do it with GitHub Actions, we use zuul for it like BMW and Volvo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z8rofKRen3w