Test GitHub Actions Locally

And, worse IMHO, Gitea is hitching their wagon to it https://gitea.com/gitea/act#forking-rules (plus whatever the relationship is to https://code.forgejo.org/forgejo/act#forking-rules ) and with all the marketing-speak about "runs github actions!" I think people are going to get a bad taste in their mouth from having improper expectations. I have the same bitterness from GitLab claiming that "gitlab-runner exec" does anything sane

My experience matches yours: it's a noble idea, but they have quite a way to go, including better error messages for when they assume something exists and doesn't. I do have a great deal of sympathy for the incredibly hard task of "run arbitrary JS from the Internet as if it were GitHub" but I'm also not the one who claims my tool runs arbitrary GitHub Actions yaml