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Scheduled jobs

Scheduled jobs #22644

Workflow file for this run

name: 'Scheduled jobs'
on:
schedule:
# GitHub Actions' `cron` uses UTC, which, given daylight savings time, is
# pretty useless if one wants a consistent local starting time. Instead,
# we'll just run a Python script every hour and implement the schedule in
# that script. This also allows for things that aren't possible with a
# `cron` expression, like biweekly intervals.
#
# Additionally, GitHub documents that scheduled events can be delayed during
# periods of high load, or even skipped. To reduce the chances of these
# restrictions impacting our schedule, we run the script more than once per
# hour.
#
# https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/events-that-trigger-workflows#schedule
#
- cron: '3,23,43 * * * *'
jobs:
schedule:
runs-on: 'ubuntu-22.04' # has Python 3.10.12, which is fine for our purposes
permissions:
issues: 'write'
env:
# This must be a classic access token with `repo` scope so that it can
# create issues in the private `azul-private` repo. A fine-grained token
# didn't work at the time this comment was written.
#
GITHUB_TOKEN: '${{ secrets.AZUL_GITHUB_ACCESS_TOKEN_SCHEDULE_ACTION }}'
steps:
- uses: 'actions/checkout@v3'
with:
sparse-checkout: '.github'
- run: 'python3 .github/workflows/schedule.py'