alt Hacker NewsIt feels like they launched actions and it quickly turned out to be an operations and availability nightmare. Since then, they've been firefighting and now the problems have spread to previously stable things like issues and PRs
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nulltrace • yesterday at 10:29 PM
We added Actions for CI in 2020. A year later realized our entire deploy pipeline just assumed it would be up.
Webhook doesn't fire, nothing errors out, and you find out when someone asks why staging hasn't moved in two days.
They rushed to launch Actions because GitLab launched them before.
BTW, GitLab called it "CI/CD" just as a navigation section on their dashboard, and that name spread outside as well, despite being weird. Weird names are easier to remember and associate with specific meaning, instead of generic characterless "Actions".