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Andrew

On Fri, May 29, 2026 at 1:53 PM Oleks V. <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thank you, Bob, for raising this concern regarding the consumption of ASF
> shared resources.
>
> The Apache DataFusion team has already addressed several low-hanging
> optimizations, and as a result, daily CI resource consumption has been
> reduced by approximately 50%. 24Hr usage decreased from 113K minutes a week
> ago to 55K minutes over the last 24 hours.
>
> These changes were introduced over the past few days, and the most recent
> 5-day report is already approaching the threshold defined in the ASF policy:
> https://infra.apache.org/github-actions-policy.html
>
> Specifically, the latest 5-day report shows 248K minutes compared to the
> 216K threshold, with a clear downward trend continuing as the recent
> optimizations fully propagate through the reporting window.
>
> In parallel, we are actively working on longer-term improvements that will
> further reduce CI overhead while maintaining project quality and
> contributor experience.
>
> Some of the options currently being evaluated include:
>
> * Offloading long-running CI pipelines to contributor forks, similar to
> the approach used by Apache Spark:
>   https://github.com/apache/spark/tree/master/.github
>   This would shift execution of certain workflows from ASF-hosted
> resources to contributor-owned resources.
> * Refining test matrices to reduce redundant workflow combinations.
> * Introducing a gated execution model where selected CI pipelines are
> triggered manually instead of automatically for every commit.
>
> We would also appreciate any additional recommendations you may have based
> on your experience managing CI resource utilization across ASF projects.
>
>
> Given the significant reduction already achieved and the continuing
> downward trend, would it be possible to extend the current deadline to
> allow the team sufficient time to implement the longer-term optimizations
> without negatively impacting project quality, contributor confidence and
> user trust?
>
> We appreciate your support and look forward to your feedback.
>
> Oleks V
>
> On 2026/05/22 11:44:16 Robert Thomson wrote:
> > Hello, Datafusion PMC.
> >
> > In 2024, the ASF introduced the policy for GitHub Actions usage
> > across the foundation[1]. 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 and this is the
> > case again today.
> >
> > Your project has been identified as being among the top 5 consumers of
> > build time over the past 7 days and we request that you bring your
> > usage down by stream-lining long-running builds. Contact Infra for
> > a consultation if you are unable to streamline your builds further.
> >
> > You can use the infra reporting tool[2] to monitor your GHA usage as you
> > work on stream-lining, as well as locate any bottlenecks in the
> workflows.
> >
> > Infra will allow you two weeks time (till the 8th of June, 2026) to
> > progress this, but should you still be above the limits by then,
> > without a viable path forward, we will be limiting your GHA usage.
> >
> > 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&project=datafusion&hours=24&limit=15&group=name
> >
>
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