GitHub Actions usage limit?

[oscbyspro]

I had a look at about-billing-for-github-actions:

Plan	Minutes (per month)
GitHub Free	2,000

Operating system	Minute multiplier
Linux	1
macOS	10

The (#56) pull request says it took ~2h on macOS.

1,200 GitHub-minutes per commit is unreasonable.

[oscbyspro]

And it's all spent on just building it...

Executed 291 tests, with 4 tests skipped and 0 failures (0 unexpected) in 1.246 (1.674) seconds

[ypopovych]

I have an idea.

Split tests to 4 different GA workflows:

1. Tests. Runs on each commit. macOS + Linux. Without xcodebuild. Without Benchmarks. Simple swift test command. No CocoaPods (they are slow). To test that nothing big is broken.
2. Full Tests. Runs on the new version tag event. Tests for all platforms without benchmarks through xcodebuild and CocoaPods. The release should be done in 2 steps: new tag, and then release from this tag (maybe draft release will work, should be checked in GA docs)
3. Deploy. Runs on a new non-draft release - deploy to CocoaPods, generate & publish documentation.
4. Benchmarks - run on the workflow_dispatch event manually if needed. Runs on all OSes / Xcode versions

[oscbyspro]

I like the idea of splitting it up, but you would need to xcodebuild to test a new commit, wouldn't you? Still, it might be viable if it's only on Linux. Dunno, would have to see how long it takes.

[ypopovych]

You can omit xcodebuild if you are building for macOS. You can simply run swift test command the same way as on Linux. To be exactly sure you can use xcrun swift test command and it will run swift binary from the active Xcode

[ypopovych]

BTW. You are not bound by 2000 minutes. This repository is an open-source (public) one. It has unlimited free minutes, though they will slow down runners from time to time if overused

[oscbyspro]

Good catch. I suppose I read it too fast:

GitHub Actions usage is free for standard GitHub-hosted runners in public repositories, and for self-hosted runners.

Still, I think it would be nice if it didn't take forever on every commit.

[oscbyspro]

The (#63) Linux and macOS workflows run in about 2-3 minutes each, i.e. 22-33 GitHub-minutes.