I’ve definitely had a hunch about a software factory harness kind of thing.

Your thoughts on the matter seem clearer than mine.

I’m kind of relieved to see so many stages; that’s something I’ve grappled with conceptually. The volume of (sometimes optional) stages has made it hard to resist the temptation to hack something together with a GHA workflow.

I salute your choice to support distributed; that’s a requirement in my book.

I look forward to trying it out.

Expressing complex emergent workflows is fairly straightforward given how the workflow engine recurses:

- a workflow is a series of steps

- a step is one or more tasks that can be done in parallel

- a step is complete when all of its tasks are complete

- a task can be a unit of work, or a pointer to another workflow

I’ve reached the point where I just feel a mourning kind of sadness for GitHub

I feel that way for open source and programming in general. I don’t think it's going to be a thing anymore in just a couple of years. Even now I see people already don't look at any of the code they release.

I missed the part about the refunds…

I miss https://highscalabilty.com ;( The “Stuff The Internet Says On Scalability” posts were always worth a read.