Comment by rcxdude
13 hours ago
True, but you could argue whether these were good product decisions especially given they've probably contributed to the cost of running the platform and the instability substantially.
(Github did probably want a native CI implementation but I'm not really sure Actions was the way to do it. It seems so needlessly complex to me, not to mention the massive security issues. The rest of those features are just far from something I'd ever use so I don't even really know how to comment on them)
I dunno. Those features are valuable to somebody. Probably enterprise and government, which is where the money is. They basically get a full stack - and if we're being honest, it's actually pretty damn good aside from the downtime - from one vendor and that's important. The Universal Blue people have done some interesting things with Actions too. I guess if you don't need any of that stuff it's an easy migration for you. I'm in that boat. I switched to Forgejo and there's nothing I miss. Even that's overkill for my use case.
TBH I looked at forgejo as an alternative to Gitlab and the fact that they had cloned Actions is what persuaded me to drop it. IMO Gitlab's CI has been their killer feature for a while.