@benjojo What the hell is it doing to be so busy?

@benjojo Work has our own runner for GHA, I think there are dedicated runners for the heavy stuff. I have seen the regular ones get backed up regularly though so I’m glad I’m not on that team 😅

@benjojo CI tools in the field are truly a horror.

laminar with something like apptainer is pretty nice. you write a bash script that builds the environment, apptainer runs it to make a single squash file, have the laminar job do a clone and call the apptainer to build it. laminar has workspaces so you can recycle a repo and just do a cheap 'git pull' on it. nice

the mind boggles how many resources are wasted by things like "standard github ubuntu image, downloads one or more binaries from the internet every build run, does a full checkout for some reason for one build run"

concourse is kind of a nice CI system but its lack of kube support is sort of pushing it behind. but concourse also supports some kind of at least diff pulling.

the amount of repeated wget + git clone has to be something even please.build gives me pause (hermetic build involves copying only named files in to the sandbox; which COULD be cheap reflinks, or COULD be FUSE, but it is not FUSE and i'm not entirely sure if its reflinks.)

i try not to think about it all