Hi, In 2024, the ASF introduced the policy for GitHub Actions usage across the foundation[1]. As you have likely experienced, the ASF Github shared pool of Github-hosted runners has been at, or very close to the limit of 900 jobs most of the time in the past few weeks, causing jobs to queue for lengthy periods before running.
Your project has been identified as being among the top consumers of build time over the past 7 days and we request that you make efforts to bring your usage down by stream-lining long-running builds and minimising the number of concurrent builds. You can use the infra reporting tool [2] to monitor your GHA usage as you work on stream-lining and to locate any bottlenecks in the workflows. There is now on-going community discussion on a Slack channel, “project-workflow-optimisations” about the topic of optimising GitHub Actions workflows so as to minimise both the number of concurrent jobs running on our limited allocation, and the number of long-running jobs. To share best practices between projects on this area we encourage projects to contribute to this cwiki page: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/GitHub+Actions+Recommended+Practices It is also possible for a project to maintain their own self-hosted runners if they can provide a suitable VM/on-prem hardware to execute the runner: https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/GitHub+self-hosted+runners Kind regards, Bob Thomson, on behalf of ASF Infrastructure. [1] https://infra.apache.org/github-actions-policy.html [2] https://infra-reports.apache.org/#ghactions
