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I mean if paying for unlimited CI/CD is just some outages in every few months, then I think its worth it.

Even though i know its certainly a trap, github wouldn't keep actions free.

GitHub Actions isn't free

It is for most startups, but not megacorp which has the money anyway. I’ve never gotten close to hitting the CI minutes cap in companies < 100 engineers.

The cap is 2000, will 50 engineers for example really only need 40 minutes of build time each in an entire month? That’s like 5-10 builds, depending on your build duration.. just one or two a week or so. You might use all that up in a single pull request.

In a really productive month my two person startup had to buy more minutes.

I could have sworn it was more, but fair enough! I do heavily optimize CI to reduce minutes though, with easy access to local tests (and git hooks to enforce these) and more thorough tests ran nightly on merged branches.

Well, a certain level is included in the price, but that doesn't mean it's free. That level is also quite low if you really want to use it.

For open source projects(my use case) it is.

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