[xiwenc]

This is an interesting approach. I also dislike the current architecture they are pushing. Actions can break any time. Makes pipelines/actions very fragile and as you pointed not portable either.

The portability could be fixed by having a local cli runner that understand action yamls. Would be interesting to explore this.

For a while i have been fantasizing about an universal pipeline language. Like having LLVM with a unified model that can translate into different vendor implementations.

[tailspin2019]

> The portability could be fixed by having a local cli runner that understand action yamls. Would be interesting to explore this.

This is a great idea. I guess the challenge would be keeping up with the more advanced aspects of Actions, eg. spinning up multiple VMs during the build process and other things that have a heavy infrastructure (or platform-specific) element.

I'm currently caught by the GitHub Actions downtime, but like the GP, all my build scripts generally make very light use of the platform-specific features and generally I keep most of the build logic in a build.sh file.

So I can build production builds locally if I need to - but a CLI that lets you "properly" run the GitHub yml files locally would be very interesting.