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Would be nice to save knitr caches (index_cache/) and other such build artefacts.

GitHub might either provide this out of the box at some point, or we might wait for some other service (action!) that we can save arbitrary assets to and retrieve on new runs.

Would basically mean a new action in between.

Might be related to offloading expensive computations to beefier (AWS etc) services.

waiting on github:

TravisCI and similar services provide caching (of build artefacts, separate from caching of docker images) out of the box (neh, sort of).

Is this also on the roadmap for gh actions, or is this the kind of thing that you expect the community to build?

Asking for a friend. Seriously: just trying to figure out what might make sense to build, and what you'll solve (better) eventually anyway.

With caching of (large) build artefacts, there's obviously always an ingress traffic issue if we (the community) build this stuff. If you guys are baking it into the product as a feature, then I guess you can minimise and shape caching traffic that to some extend.

Best Max

this isn't currently available.

this will be offered in the current yml-based github actions.