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by javierluraschi 1352 days ago
10min troubleshoot time * 10K devs troubleshooting GitHub Actions right now... there goes one year for comunal dev productivity.
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Balance that against the time saved by having GH actions instead of managing your own Jenkins server or something and it’s pretty fair
I spent a good 20 minutes trying to figure out why actions weren’t running for my PR. Almost lost my marbles until I saw another PR in a different repo also not running actions and I decided to check the GitHub status page. It feels like there should be some sorta warning or alert on GitHub.com when there’s an outage of a component of the site.
And yet, I doubt those 10K devs could collectively produces something in that 10 mins that would come even close to me and a random other person putting in 6 months.

This probably holds if the random person is actively working against whatever the collective goal is.