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Attention Fedora users: ngscopeclient is now building Fedora packages in GitHub Actions CI (most recent build as of this post at https://github.com/ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps/actions/runs/16252224927).
Can anyone try installing these and verify …

Merge pull request #859 from Gherkin/master · ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps@39988c1
ngscopeclient and other client applications for libscopehal. - Merge pull request #859 from Gherkin/master · ngscopeclient/scopehal-apps@39988c1

Running #Lando on GitHub Actions. #Laravel #PHP

#GitHub #Actions is great and all, but this limit of 100 search results is annoying 😅

GitHub Actions for the R language: Makes automatic testing of your R package much easier and making sure your package works on different OS and R versions is a matter of just a few lines of yaml: #rstats

Did I attempt (unsuccessfully) to run the test suite in Safari on both Windows and Ubuntu via GitHub Actions? Yes, yes I did.

personally i'm not planning to migrate from github any time soon. the people who i'd've lost on ethical grounds have self-selected out long ago, i have basically no lock-in besides very heavy reliance GH Actions (which have no viable replacement besides gitlab maybe) and i'm counting on the process of corporate death to take a few years until it starts to cause actual immediate problems

Yes I do care. OrganicMaps this wasn't expected from you.
Go @…
#organicMaps #comsps

Switching to @… continues to look like a good idea.
https://fosstodon.org/@organicmaps/115202657995358203

Tonight's adventure: Start switching from public hosted #Renovate to running it on #GitHub #actions and get access to all the juicy extras!

Running #Lando on GitHub Actions. #Laravel #PHP
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Github is having a normal one I see

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows
Edward Abrokwah, Taher A. Ghaleb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.18062 https://

An Empirical Study of Complexity, Heterogeneity, and Compliance of GitHub Actions Workflows
Continuous Integration (CI) has evolved from a tooling strategy to a fundamental mindset in modern CI engineering. It enables teams to develop, test, and deliver software rapidly and collaboratively. Among CI services, GitHub Actions (GHA) has emerged as a dominant service due to its deep integration with GitHub and a vast ecosystem of reusable workflow actions. Although GHA provides official documentation and community-supported best practices, there appears to be limited empirical understandi…

A perfectly normal commit log:
• do X
• try fixing X
• debug
• more debug
• wtf?!
• LOL, seriously?
(Yes, throwaway branch for trying to get #GitHub Actions to work.)

This single GH issue page is currently at 88 resources (2.45MB/579KB transferred), and most of the “vendors” and “react” requests have timed out after 3 minutes.
I see the issue title and description, but I can’t work on it because someone made the comment/actions form into a broken asynchronous mess.
I seriously used to point people at GitHub as “here’s someone who’s actually doing progressive enhancement well, and it’s not just super simple stuff”. Not anymore. )-: React ruined…

CI/CD Catalog–#Gitlab's answer to GitHub Actions
https://gitlab.com/explore/catalog?search=maven

Does anyone have experience with running docker images of other Linux distros in GitHub Actions CI?
Use case is validating that things build and run under e.g. Fedora or Arch given an outer Ubuntu system. It won't be perfect because you're still running the Ubuntu kernel but should be good enough to find obvious build problems, produce usable nightly builds, etc.

Can LLMs Write CI? A Study on Automatic Generation of GitHub Actions Configurations
Taher A. Ghaleb, Dulina Rathnayake
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.17165 htt…

Can LLMs Write CI? A Study on Automatic Generation of GitHub Actions Configurations
Continuous Integration (CI) services, such as GitHub Actions, require developers to write YAML-based configurations, which can be tedious and error-prone. Despite the increasing use of Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate software engineering tasks, their ability to generate CI configurations remains underexplored. This paper presents a preliminary study evaluating six LLMs for generating GitHub Actions configurations from natural language descriptions. We assess three general-purpose found…

I have to use #Gitlab CI at $work, and I'm surprised how clunky it is.
CI Components are not real components, they just dump YAML into a global namespace, needing hacks to customize them.
There's no reusability at the granularity of Github Actions (other than concatenation of bash scripts).
I keep running into dead ends. I check Gitlab's own bug tracker to see if an…

Want to use {pak} as backend for {renv} actions? Set the variable RENV_CONFIG_PAK_ENABLED = TRUE #renv

[pak] Use pak for package installation · Issue #1210 · rstudio/renv
Related issues: #1268 #1331 #1330 #1334

Does AI Code Review Lead to Code Changes? A Case Study of GitHub Actions
Kexin Sun, Hongyu Kuang, Sebastian Baltes, Xin Zhou, He Zhang, Xiaoxing Ma, Guoping Rong, Dong Shao, Christoph Treude
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18771

Does AI Code Review Lead to Code Changes? A Case Study of GitHub Actions
AI-based code review tools automatically review and comment on pull requests to improve code quality. Despite their growing presence, little is known about their actual impact. We present a large-scale empirical study of 16 popular AI-based code review actions for GitHub workflows, analyzing more than 22,000 review comments in 178 repositories. We investigate (1) how these tools are adopted and configured, (2) whether their comments lead to code changes, and (3) which factors influence their ef…

Dealing with SonarQube Cloud: Initial Results from a Mining Software Repository Study
Sabato Nocera, Davide Fucci, Giuseppe Scanniello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.18816 https://

Dealing with SonarQube Cloud: Initial Results from a Mining Software Repository Study
Background: Static Code Analysis (SCA) tools are widely adopted to enforce code quality standards. However, little is known about how open-source projects use and customize these tools. Aims: This paper investigates how GitHub projects use and customize a popular SCA tool, namely SonarQube Cloud. Method: We conducted a mining study of GitHub projects that are linked through GitHub Actions to SonarQube Cloud projects. Results: Among 321 GitHub projects using SonarQube Cloud, 81% of them are corr…

Can I get a Fedora user to test something on ngscopeclient for me?
Download the latest RPM from GitHub Actions CI (specifically the CI package, not one you've compiled yourself and install it.
Does it report a plausible version number
1) in the package itself
2) in the title bar
3) in the about dialog?
Just fixed a bug causing empty strings to appear instead of version numbers in the Debian CI builds and I'm not sure if Fedora was impacted too. It use…

Extension Decisions in Open Source Software Ecosystem
Elmira Onagh, Maleknaz Nayebi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.23168 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.23168

Extension Decisions in Open Source Software Ecosystem
GitHub Marketplace is expanding by approximately 41% annually, with new tools; however, many additions replicate existing functionality. We study this phenomenon in the platform's largest segment, Continuous Integration (CI), by linking 6,983 CI Actions to 3,869 providers and mining their version histories. Our graph model timestamps every functionality's debut, tracks its adoption, and clusters redundant tools. We find that approximately 65% of new CI Actions replicate existing capabilities, t…

From First Use to Final Commit: Studying the Evolution of Multi-CI Service Adoption
Nitika Chopra, Taher A. Ghaleb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20095 https://

From First Use to Final Commit: Studying the Evolution of Multi-CI Service Adoption
Continuous Integration (CI) services, such as GitHub Actions and Travis CI, are widely adopted in open-source development to automate testing and deployment. Though existing research often examines individual services in isolation, it remains unclear how projects adopt and transition between multiple services over time. To understand how CI adoption is evolving across services, we present a preliminary study analyzing the historical CI adoption of 18,924 Java projects hosted on GitHub between J…

CIgrate: Automating CI Service Migration with Large Language Models
Md Nazmul Hossain, Taher A. Ghaleb
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.20402 https://arxiv.org/p…

CIgrate: Automating CI Service Migration with Large Language Models
Continuous Integration (CI) configurations often need to be migrated between services (e.g., Travis CI to GitHub Actions) as projects evolve, due to changes in service capabilities, usage limits, or service deprecation. Previous studies reported that migration across CI services is a recurring need in open-source development. However, manual migration can be time-consuming and error-prone. The state-of-the-art approach, CIMig, addresses this challenge by analyzing past migration examples to cre…