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Discussion on: Request GitHub Actions to be added to the internal marketplace

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Rob Bos

I normally don't, but I am on the fence of that. Biggest issue comes from using containers or downloading binaries on the fly: those adjustments will have to be made.

If you do: then updating the forks will become very hard. Sending back updates will be hard as well.
If you don't: then it is a (small) hurdle for your internal developers. Internal containers is the next issue indeed. I'm not sure on the solution yet.

Even mirroring the actions internally will have the same issue: will you tell your users to use a custom branch with the changes, that you then need to keep up to date?

I would really like if the internal container registry can be placed in front of your internal runners transparently, fixing the issue that way.

We're currently starting a larger rollout with this, and we need to onboard 60+ actions in one go. Will add the learnings from that process when they show up ;-).

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Mark Phippard

Thanks, we have been debating this as we are about to roll out something similar. It feels to me like it will be a nuisance for the user to have the docs they copy and paste not work ... but I also think anyone authoring a workflow ought to be able to figure this out. It will be good to hear your experience on that if you have users using this.

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Rob Bos

I intent to show the correct example in the internal marketplace as well, since we can just overwrite what we show there. If the user then goes to the forked repo, they'll still see the original README.md of course.