jawache
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8 months ago Thanks @seedstarter, I know you don't have any questions but I'd love to give you some thoughts to think about as you develop this.
If I understand the proposal, for the above you'll have to capture the utilization of the processes running inside a gh action, hopefully capture the CPU name/instance type and other information so we can use the existing plugins to compute the carbon emissions of running gh actions of your CI/CD component of your applications emissions.
One thing we've thought about a lot is how to integrate IF into CI/CD workflows, a question we've asked is "is it possible within a GitHub action to run the unit tests (or some benchmark), capture the utilization and then generate a manifest file that is checked into the repo as impact.yml at the root". Imagine a world where every open source project had an impact.yml at it's root which gave information about the environmental impact of that open source project, maybe even a badge that is added to the readme like a codecoverage badge or something. We developed the SCI spec specifically so it could be used to measure open source projects so a manifest file with a pipeline to compute an SCI score would be idea. If it was as simple as, add a gh action, configure it with some params like the benchmark/unit tests/script to run and then for every commit it computed an impact.yml and checked it into the root, if it was as simple as that I can imagine many many OSS projects leveraging it. Just some food for thought, i'm not going to be one of the judges so don't take my feedback above as a guarantee the judges will like it ;) but from my perspective something that that could revolutionize the entire open source ecosystem!
josh-swerdlow
seedstarter
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Best Plugin
Overview
The Git Actions import plugin will be designed in a way that results in retrieving data relevant to CI/CD workflows. The data acquisition process unfolds methodically, either following the completion of each individual workflow run or in bulk, addressing multiple workflows at once.
The aim is to define a spectrum of measurements and parameters essential for the seamless integration of various plugins within the impact framework pipeline.
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