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Post #2487226
2026-04-28 20:32 UTC
@coderanger@cloudisland.nz I was recently looking at Buildkite, it’s interesting, but it can’t provide what Microsoft can. IMO with GitHub actions we get what we (don’t) pay for. In CPython for example, we now have many many jobs that run in the CI for each commit (both to branches and PRs, looking at the statistics, that’s a total of over 1.2 million minutes this month). It may not be ideal, but it is a pretty amazing amount of resources.
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@coderanger@cloudisland.nz 2026-04-28 20:40
@stanfromireland@mastodon.social Subsidized runners are a different question. Microsoft could donate the same amount of Azure VMs. And I would argue they should give a lot more, but that's a bigger problem to solve. Free or reduced-cost compute for FOSS CI is a nice pot-sweetener but it shouldn't stop us from pushing the tech giants to properly support their dependencies.