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Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

#21
I love how even self hosted workers don't work during these outages - running jobs on their infrastructure being flakey is marginally acceptable, but the API to simply schedule workflows having this availability is mind boggling. Github just doesn't seem like a serious company anymore.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

#22

Someone needs to work on improving the way Actions deals with resource exhaustion like this. Today it exploded all the CI jobs with "failed" and an inscrutable message about "The job was not acquired by Runner of type hosted even after multiple attempts" then "Internal server error". It should say "Timed out due to no runner available, our apologies, try again later, or pay $$$ here to get priority for runners".

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Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

#24
Do we need to say this again? GitHub appears that they are never going to improve. Just look at how GitHub spark has deprecated, now we have this.

After 6 years of this nonsense of "centralizing everything on GitHub", it is not a good idea at all.

You might as well self host like I said before [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22868406

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

#27

I love how even self hosted workers don't work during these outages - running jobs on their infrastructure being flakey is marginally acceptable, but the API to simply schedule workflows having this availability is mind boggling. Github just doesn't seem like a serious company anymore.

Microsoft is not a serious company anymore.

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

#28

I love how even self hosted workers don't work during these outages - running jobs on their infrastructure being flakey is marginally acceptable, but the API to simply schedule workflows having this availability is mind boggling. Github just doesn't seem like a serious company anymore.

Maybe switching to https://github.com/gitlabhq :)

Re: GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability

#29
Are there any other CI providers that offer free cloud-hosted Windows runners?

Or has Microsoft made sure (through Windows licensing terms and pricing) that it's not possible to compete with their own CI offering?

Edit: CircleCI seems to offer 750 minutes/month (whereas GitHub offers 1000 minutes/month).

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