Possible improvements to GitHub Actions (CI)

[YoshiRulz]

make final build downloadable

• Add github artifacts link to readme #3945

logs can't be read without signing in (probably hardcoded site-wide)

something better than installing .NET SDK in Ubuntu

• https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/dotnet-loves-github-actions/
• https://nixos.org/guides/continuous-integration-github-actions.html
• https://github.com/Elskom/build-dotnet/

misc.

• https://github.com/neysofu/awesome-github-actions-runners#list-of-providers
• Don't send email if CI job got canceled by a new commit #3944
• SAST workflow (https://gitlab.com/YoshiRulz/yoshis-hawk-thoughts/-/issues/97)

T_T migrate from GitLab:

• https://docs.github.com/en/actions/migrating-to-github-actions/automated-migrations/migrating-from-gitlab-with-github-actions-importer
• https://docs.github.com/en/actions/migrating-to-github-actions/manually-migrating-to-github-actions/migrating-from-gitlab-cicd-to-github-actions
• need to tweak how artifacts are created, at least for releases: Make CI package the linux build as tar.gz right away #4126

see also #3013, #3426

[Morilli]

make final build downloadable

Artifacts are currently uploaded with each successful build, but accessing them requires navigating to the action for the latest commit and having a github account. There are services like https://nightly.link/ that can be used to generate a link to the latest build artifact created by a github action.

logs can't be read without signing in (probably hardcoded site-wide)

Unfortunate, but probably not something we can or need to fix, I don't see a situation where a logged-out user would need to access github action logs

something better than installing .NET SDK in Ubuntu

Not entirely sure what those links are suggesting here. Installing the .NET SDK for each action takes around 8 seconds on the ubuntu runner, so this really shouldn't be an issue.

[YoshiRulz]

Can you give the archives more precise names, like I've done with GitLab CI? edit: Blocked by oprypin/nightly.link#20, but hopefully we can include that info in another way, because having to run the app and open the About dialog is not great.

edit: Moved to #4140.