Timeout for jobs waiting in the queue for a runner

[karszawa]

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Self-hosted Runners

Discussion Details

Request: a timeout for the time a job spends queued waiting for a runner.

Today: timeout-minutes only starts counting once the job is running. A job that targets an offline self-hosted runner stays queued for up to 24 hours, and nothing downstream can react to it.

Proposal: a job-level queue-timeout-minutes. When it expires, the job ends as failed (or cancelled), so a later job with if: failure() can rerun the work on another runner and the workflow does not hang for a day.

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