Comment by silisili
2 days ago
Anyone who has ever used Gitlab, or dare my foul mouth say Jenkins, has experienced a better system than Github actions.
Unless it's miraculously improved recently as it's been a couple years for me, they didn't even document their regex/pattern matching. Best I could find via searching was that it was whatever Ruby used, which wasn't any kind of real standard.
I don't want to call anyone names, but whoever defends said system deserves some ribbing.
I've used both and I don't know if they've been improved but both were terrible a few years ago (at least in our case). Very unstable and finicky. I last used Jenkins in 2017 and Gitlab in 2021, so I don't know how they are today.
Gitlab smokes and rolls githubs shitty ass CI all day any day for over 10 years now
I've had so many issues with Gitlab CI. I don't think it's really any better than Github's.
I'll take any CI service that isn't cobbled together by mountains of nested and indirected YAML.
Absolute horror to maintain.
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What? Jenkins? No way.
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Github was great at the time when it replaced Sourceforge. But that was a long time ago and actually better alternatives are popping up left and right. And that's even without Microsoft's recent-ish enshittifaction process (e.g. letting everything rot that's not AI related). Githubs entire management and development process is simply broken beyond repair, monkeys at the wheel or not.
PS: also Gitlab CI is so much better than GH Actions that they are not even in the same league. It is very apparent that Gitlab is actually dogfooding their stuff, which is not the impression I get from any Github feature.
Oh come on.
Micros$$$$ft owns github.
We don't need to give some pretend sympathy.
When you can afford to have good things, and you're not, don't come crying about getting called bad names.
Actions is bad.
> I dare anyone who is delusional enough to think they can create something better to actually make something better
Actions speak louder than words.
Zig is leaving because of the issues they mentioned.
> People tried other services like GitLab and realized it is slower, uglier and overall worse than GH and came crawling back.
Maybe. I guess we'll see.
I think the OP has been pretty clear that they're not happy with it, and, they're putting their money where their mouth is.
Clearly, just complaining about broken things isn't working.
Maybe a couple more big moves like this is what GH needs to wake up and allocate some more resources (that they, can categorically afford) to fixing things.
So who is complaining that Zig leaving GH is somehow a problem? I just don't like how they have to put out false claims like there are big problems with GH CI and Sponsors.
Zig is leaving GH for another provider. They did not make a better GH and fixed all the problems with it.
You literally have to fill out a form to convince Codeberg that you need CI. I would take GH CI over that.
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