The original goal of DevOps never happened. Companies immediately jumped on this with "rationalizations" and "integrations" to make it so fewer people were in charge of more things.

Case in point, the number of companies who create "devops" teams completely missing the point of the exercise.

This is basically how most other CI systems work. GitLab CI, Jenkins, Buildbot, Cirrus CI, etc. are all other systems I've used and they work this way.

I find GitHub Actions abhorrent in a way that I never found a CI/CD system before...

as usual for Microslop products: it's designed for maximum lock-in

everything is including some crappy proprietary yaml rather than using standard tooling

so instead of being a collection of easily composable and testable bits it's a mess that only works on their platform

It seems more of a cultural issue that -- I'm pretty sure -- predates Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub. I assume crappy proprietary yaml can be blamed on use of Ruby. And there seems to be an odd and pervasive "80% is good enough" feel to pretty much everything in GitHub, which is definitely cultural, and I'm pretty sure, also predates Microsoft's acquisition.

GHA is based on Azure Actions. This is evident in how bad its security stance is, since Azure Actions was designed to be used in a more closed/controlled environment.

> I find GitHub Actions abhorrent in a way that I never found a CI/CD system before...

That's just the good old Microsoft effect, they have a reverse-midas-touch when it comes to actually delivering good UX experiences.

PySide is supported. The KDE Frameworks Python bindings work on top of PySide.

Python KDE Framework bindings are anemic: https://invent.kde.org/teams/goals/streamlined-application-d...

Ok yeah that was my impression. In theory they exist but they're not kept updated to allow comprehensive access to all of KDE.

I believe GitHub is under a different group (CoreAI), not DevDiv.

None of the alternative forges have a better issue tracker implementation. For the most part, they are basically copies of GitHub. No hope there. :(

If you use KDE Plasma (like with Fedora KDE or Kinoite), you do not need Flatseal, as the functionality is integrated into System Settings.

Great tip - I do use KDE but didn't know this. Always just reached for Flatseal - but the functionality being integrated is even better. Very cool.

Ask them, don't ask us. They have a public interface, you can ask them to change the name to something unique.

The Start menu is React Native, but Outlook is now an Electron app.

The GNU v3 licenses all cover software patents too, and parts of FFmpeg are under those licenses too (though I guess not the code copied and subject to this takedown, which is LGPLv2.1+).

It definitely does have precedent in multiple jurisdictions. Heck, SFC just won against Vizio enforcing the GPL's terms in the US, and there have been previous wins in France and Germany.