Impressive, since switching from gitlab-ci to earthly, pipeline runs with container builds went from >20 minutes down to 3-8 minutes.

What a little bit of better caching can do for you.

It's no longer fully self-hosted, but earthly is trivial to self-host if I want to bother at some point.

https://git.shivering-isles.com/shivering-isles/infrastructure-gitops/-/tree/a14fb784645bfd08668a2567a173b6cc432ac384/shared/earthly

And given earthly hands out 6000 CI minutes for free, it actually cuts cost compared to starting a VM on hetzner or locally.

#earthly #gitlab #selfhosting

shared/earthly · a14fb784645bfd08668a2567a173b6cc432ac384 · Shivering-Isles / Infrastructure GitOps · GitLab

GitOps-based setup for infrastructure, including all tooling and instructions for bootstraping

^GitLab

One trick to make your life much better as a maintainer and help contributors

Have a Makefile directive to run everything that runs on CI

`make x` is all it should take to verify the changes pass automated tests

Linter, formatter, sorter, unit tests, etc

If tooling is needed then add a `make setup` directive that takes care of installing it

#offlinefirst #ci #development #git #GitHub #GitLab #Codeberg #dx #FreeSoftware #FLOSS #developerExperience #developer

Another article on #OpenSource, this time written by Richard Pope, who was one of the founding members of the UK’s #GDS. There is just so much for which governments can benefit by engaging with the open source communities that they use. Furthermore, the government contributing their work back to the public #GitHub or #GitLab repositories makes the code more secure and drives down the costs for #DigitalGovernment.

https://digitalpublicgoods.xyz/behave

If you have experience maintaining a GitLab CI runner on macOS, and you wish to contribute to building and testing GLib and GTK on macOS, please join the GNOME Infrastructure channel to help maintaining the macOS server provided by the GNOME Foundation, otherwise we will have to retire it. More details on Discourse: https://discourse.gnome.org/t/potential-retirement-of-the-macos-ci-builder-for-glib-and-gtk/16198

#gtk #gnome #macos #ci #gitlab

Potential retirement of the macOS CI builder for GLib and GTK

The GNOME Foundation has been sponsoring a hosted macOS CI runner for a few years, but the admins are now planning to retire it for a couple of reasons: the hardware is getting long in the tooth (it’s still an x86_64 machine) it’s a shared bare met…

^{GNOME Discourse}

Current status : looking for the “*no thanks, I’d rather die*” button.

(And #gitlab, do not suggest ever again that I’m using #VSCode as my “local IDE”. This is totally inappropriate.)