I remember when GitLab first started getting attention as a competitor to GitHub. In the beginning, people tended to see GitLab as a GitHub clone, but one killer feature that GitLab had over GitHub, at least for me, was GitLab CI. Eventually, GitLab gained traction as a viable alternative to GitHub. It looks like GitHub is responding to GitLab by adapting some of its features now. First, it was free private repos, and now GitHub also supports CI. GitHub must then see GitLab as somewhat of a threat, or at least a fledgling competitor that it needs to nip in the bud. But GitHub has the advantage of being the more popular service, and it's using this aspect to its advantage (see GitHub Actions' integration with the GitHub package registry). In the process, GitHub is gradually consolidating influence as the central service for software development... I voiced similar concerns about monopolization when GitHub released its package registry. Looks like this is the next step. More on reddit.com

I do understand that they have a cost associated with running the actions platform, but when you already pay them $21/user/month, it feels like a slap in the face. And having the gall to charge for a service that is as unmaintained and neglected as it is, does not make this any better. The enshittification will continue until morale improves :) More on reddit.com

https://docs.github.com/en/rest/reference/actions#get-workflow-run-usage More on reddit.com

The way to break up a workflow is to create actions that combine chunks of the work into steps. But it's hard to say how you might want to proceed with this little detail. What is the problem that you are trying to solve exactly? More on reddit.com