Thanks for the reply. What do you mean by a CI/CD system?
I'm not sure what you think was "bolted on" to actions, could you be specific? Features have been added (during the beta and since) but I can't think of anything that could really be described as "bolted on". "bolted on" to me implies some kind of disharmony with other features, weird quirks etc.
> I seriously didn't understand what problems github actions were intended to solve
You can run arbitrary code in response to any GitHub repository event, and also cron jobs and external triggers (a GitHub app can POST to a specific API to trigger those style of workflows).
The code runs with access to GitHub APIs for your repo (it can clone it, leave comments, create new PRs, whatever), and in any event that is associated with a PR a check status gets added to the PR.
This is a pretty general-purpose tool and I think it's easy to imagine the kind of problems people would use it to solve...
> my suspicion is [...]
Honestly it sounds like you're not really familiar with it and have some strongly negative opinions. I'd recommend either giving it another look and putting aside your feelings or working on a more substantive critique...
I'm not sure what you think was "bolted on" to actions, could you be specific? Features have been added (during the beta and since) but I can't think of anything that could really be described as "bolted on". "bolted on" to me implies some kind of disharmony with other features, weird quirks etc.
> I seriously didn't understand what problems github actions were intended to solve
You can run arbitrary code in response to any GitHub repository event, and also cron jobs and external triggers (a GitHub app can POST to a specific API to trigger those style of workflows).
The code runs with access to GitHub APIs for your repo (it can clone it, leave comments, create new PRs, whatever), and in any event that is associated with a PR a check status gets added to the PR.
This is a pretty general-purpose tool and I think it's easy to imagine the kind of problems people would use it to solve...
> my suspicion is [...]
Honestly it sounds like you're not really familiar with it and have some strongly negative opinions. I'd recommend either giving it another look and putting aside your feelings or working on a more substantive critique...