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AFAIK, scheduled GitHub workflows stop running after a while. But when that happens, GitHub will send you an email with a big green “Continue running workflow”

by 1f60c 4y ago

AFAIK, scheduled GitHub workflows stop running after a while. But when that happens, GitHub will send you an email with a big green “Continue running workflow” button.

sauruk 4y ago
sounds like time to make a “hit the big green button” github action
akerl_ 4y ago
I use crons to keep my Docker containers fresh, and have never hit this. But the cron commits to the repo, so I wonder if they’re flagging repos with crons but no commits recently?
- tracker1 4y ago
  Definitely... It seems to be in 4-6 week timeframe... I'd thought about making the cron update references in the repo, but hadn't gone through that as of yet.
tracker1 4y ago
I've got a couple projects like this, that mostly just create bundles of other source projects that I'm not involved with. Creating a windows installer, or docker image for projects that don't have that integrated. It's kind of annoying that they will stop in several weeks when there's no project changes.
- moehm 4y ago
  > It's kind of annoying that they will stop in several weeks when there's no project changes. Can't you configure a GHA which commits nonsense every month?
  - tracker1 4y ago
    Yeah... I will probably do that, with my daily check action (update a last-check) text file or something.
- genericacct 4y ago
  Can you not trigger an action via a local cronjob and the API?
  - tracker1 4y ago
    But then I need a second system to do that.
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WirelessGigabit 4y ago
I wonder if I can make a Github repo with an action that commits to another repo on a cron. Or itself?
prepend 4y ago
Actions won’t run on repos with no activity for 60 days [0]. So make sure your action commits something to the repo to keep up activity. This seems to meet OP’s use case as they have to commit state anyway. [0] https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-workflow-runs/disabling-and-enabling-a-workflow https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-workflow-runs/di...

by 1f60c 4y ago

AFAIK, scheduled GitHub workflows stop running after a while. But when that happens, GitHub will send you an email with a big green “Continue running workflow” button.

sauruk 4y ago

sounds like time to make a “hit the big green button” github action

akerl_ 4y ago

I use crons to keep my Docker containers fresh, and have never hit this. But the cron commits to the repo, so I wonder if they’re flagging repos with crons but no commits recently?

tracker1 4y ago
Definitely... It seems to be in 4-6 week timeframe... I'd thought about making the cron update references in the repo, but hadn't gone through that as of yet.

tracker1 4y ago

I've got a couple projects like this, that mostly just create bundles of other source projects that I'm not involved with. Creating a windows installer, or docker image for projects that don't have that integrated. It's kind of annoying that they will stop in several weeks when there's no project changes.

moehm 4y ago
> It's kind of annoying that they will stop in several weeks when there's no project changes. Can't you configure a GHA which commits nonsense every month?
- tracker1 4y ago
  Yeah... I will probably do that, with my daily check action (update a last-check) text file or something.
genericacct 4y ago
Can you not trigger an action via a local cronjob and the API?
- tracker1 4y ago
  But then I need a second system to do that.

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WirelessGigabit 4y ago

I wonder if I can make a Github repo with an action that commits to another repo on a cron. Or itself?

prepend 4y ago

Actions won’t run on repos with no activity for 60 days [0]. So make sure your action commits something to the repo to keep up activity. This seems to meet OP’s use case as they have to commit state anyway. [0] https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-workflow-runs/disabling-and-enabling-a-workflow https://docs.github.com/en/actions/managing-workflow-runs/di...