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

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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

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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…

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