Hi Bob, Thanks for the notification !
There was a spike in runners because we are preparing a release and over 50 contributions required verification to ensure our software quality This kind of spikes should happen every 3 months unless there is a special case and due to the amount of patches can not be avoided Best regards Alin J On Mon, Aug 3, 2026 at 8:09 PM Robert Thomson <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > In 2024, the ASF introduced the policy for GitHub Actions usage across > the foundation[1]. As you have likely experienced, the ASF's Github > shared pool of Github-hosted runners has been at the maximum limit of > the number of jobs that can run most of today, causing all project's > jobs to queue for lengthy periods before running, and your project has > been identified as using 100 hours of GitHub Actions runner time every > hour today. 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 >
