With Github recently having issues it was a nice time to see what other options folks recommend. I've run forgejo for a little bit but it always feels like a bit too much for solo projects.
Two new ones mentioned that I haven't seen before were tangled and Radicle. tangled seems like a nice integrated model but self hosting the knot is only one piece of the system. Radicle seems like a farther departure from usual forge systems.
I added a repo to each Radicle and tangled. The tangled story for CI seems nice with Nix based runner. The Radicle system is less developed.
I've added some sanity checks my common Github Actions when I build Docker containers to run the -h of a tool after building the image. I've a couple times been bitten by shared lib versions across build vs runtime base images. This at least verifies that the binary is in place and works!
- name: Build
uses: docker/build-push-action@v6
with:
platforms: ${{ inputs.docker_platforms }}
context: ${{ inputs.context }}
cache-from: type=gha
cache-to: type=gha,mode=max
load: true
tags: local-build:${{ github.sha }}
push: false
- name: Check Container
if: inputs.check_command != ''
run: |
docker run local-build:${{ github.sha }} ${{ inputs.check_command }}
It looks like Github branch rulesets allow setting a bypass for specific app integrations! This should allow my Github app to avoid making a branch, PR, and auto-merging... which would be nice eventually!
First time giving rulesets a try
I'm exploring using Github Apps for w2z instead of fine-grained personal access tokens (PATs). Replacing PATs every 90 days is a bit tedious. Eventually the app flow should give a better experience.