@badnetmask Basically it's the "podman create" command taking so long. The HW it's running on is quiet old, two spinning disks in a RAID 1.
But putting this aside, I don't want to pull or use such overloaded images. And as coming from GitLab basic functions like checkout and push to the built-in package registry should be included.
Shifting this general logic to the backend makes pipeline description very sleek and so much easier to read.
Anyhow, testing Forgejo will go on.