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A curated list of actions to use on GitHub

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GitHub Actions can do some neat things. I got tired of waiting for Dependabot (tool that makes automatic PRs to update your middleware, acquired by GitHub) to add an option to group PRs together (it opens a separate PR for each dependency that can be updated, so merging and re-running CI can take a long time) so I scratched my own itch and made a workflow that merges their PRs together: https://github.com/hrvey/combine-prs-workflow Been running it for a year now, and still pretty happy with it.

Thanks! So many CPU minutes / parallel runner capacity is wasted on them not being combined, especially with the cascading rebasing that happens with each merge.

I wish they'd solve this and make it easy to have actions disabled in forks.

That is pretty awesome. I might try this next time I get swamped by 20 PR's for npm dependencies that are allegedly insecure.

Not sure how “curated” this list is. The first one that caught my eye (https://github.com/phishy/wflow) has a “this repo is archived” warning with no updates since 2019.

It uses the "Awesome Lists" format many of which are more of huge lists of almost everything noteworthy on specific topic not a curated list with high standards. Often created for the purpose of farming github stars and contributions for the author of list and people contributing to it.

Even if the lists aren't of best quality, they can sometimes be useful as starting point for researching a new topic. Just need to keep in mind that some things might be missing and you need to evaluate and compare the quality of each linked project yourself.

I fail to see the point of a curated-but-unmaintained list when you can just go to the GitHub actions marketplace, where at least there are community stars that let you know how popular a given action is.

Similar to that tool but more than a simulation, you can use `act` to run GitHub Actions locally. Great for testing before deploying.

https://github.com/nektos/act

Right, I’m aware of ACT; I saw this tool whose description seemed more interesting than ACT, but as I posted, it’s been abandoned.

A French website - https://vitemadose.covidtracker.fr/ - used GitHub Actions to find an available vaccine center near you. The actions were scraping official websites with available slots to make them available all at once - in a single view.

It’s amazing what you can do (for free?) with GitHub actions.

[1] https://github.com/CovidTrackerFr/vitemadose

Ce nom de domaine de camé... Ça en dit long sur l'état de délabrement intellectuel du pays.

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