alt Hacker NewsGithub being less and less reliable nowadays just makes this more true.
In the past week I have seen:
- actions/checkout inexplicably failing, sometimes succeeding on 3rd retry (of the built-in retry logic)
- release ci jobs scheduling _twice_, causing failures, because ofc the release already exists
- jobs just not scheduling. Sometimes for 40m.
I have been using it actively for a few years and putting aside everything the author is saying, just the base reliability is going downhill.
I guess zig was right. Too bad they missed builtkite, Codeberg hasn't been that reliable or fast in my experience.
Yeah, do crons even work consistently for GitHub Actions? I tried to set one up the other day and it just randomly skipped runs. There were some docs that suggested they’re entirely unreliable as well.