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This is the exact mentality behind corporate software and why nobody gets fired for using IBM, Oracle, Azure...
Accountability is a poor proxy for quality because there are so many ways to frame an incident never those responsible really get accountable.
Software works because developers care about the product. If something goes wrong the entire team is accountable, so they work together on something as one.
The Brazilian Amazon deforestation rate in 2020 is the greatest of the decade (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-020-01368-x)
Brazil sees record fall in Amazon deforestation as key election looms (https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqe8rzg6zl00o)
But this abstract exercise is only to highlight the importance of Apple getting its shit together, because such a scenario exists with Windows and the culture of downloading exes and msis and it's honestly way worse than having a central but responsible authority.
It was a carcinoma, and surgery removed it. If ChatGPT had existed back then, this carcinoma would have been removed several years earlier.
My point is against this technical positivism.Automation doesn't make up for carelessness.
In Gitlab you can use the main file for describing high level stage pathways (tests, builds, deployments...) and offload individual control of jobs to granular files. Tests can be self contained child pipelines. Templates make them easy to replicate and components give them more flexibility.
You can do a lot more than GitHub actions with a lot less complexity than Jenkins.
Better than running on fumes would be to honourably phase out and give people time to move on.
And asking harder? How does harder look like in comparison to regular asking?