Limit ci runtime / cancel redundant jobs

[ischoegl]

Changes proposed in this pull request

Same as #894 (after force-pushing while PR was closed I can no longer reopen)

• reduce time-out limit
• cancel redundant jobs

If applicable, fill in the issue number this pull request is fixing

Fixes #893

Checklist

• There is a clear use-case for this code change
• The commit message has a short title & references relevant issues
• Build passes (scons build & scons test) and unit tests address code coverage
• The pull request is ready for review

Thoughts

• https://github.com/technote-space/auto-cancel-redundant-job
• https://docs.github.com/en/actions/reference/events-that-trigger-workflows#repository_dispatch

Per @bryanwweber's comment

One of the things I've seen in some of the Issues on these actions is is that the person doing the push has to have enough rights to cancel the workflow run in the GUI for them to work correctly. I saw a few comments recommending alternate actions that appeared to work better, but I can't recall where anymore

[ischoegl]

Based on comments by @bryanwweber in #894, it appears that there are some restrictions connected to user privileges that may prevent this PR from working as intended (it is pushed from a fork by a contributor without access privileges to the main repo). I.e. while there is no guarantee for this to work, further investigations may have to be run from a branch on the main repository.

I.e. I am reopening this PR for a developer/maintainer to follow up on.

[ischoegl]

@bryanwweber ... I rebased and cleaned this up now that 2.5.0b1 is out: I also found a comment that this may only work on the default branch (see linked pages in PR description). I confirmed that this still doesn't work despite sticking to the example. Looking at the actions output, I get:

Run technote-space/auto-cancel-redundant-job@v1

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Version:  technote-space/auto-cancel-redundant-job@v1.4.4
          852c8bea53e4df5acd92f379bd956ec8d957cfb2
Event:    pull_request
Action:   synchronize
sha:      bd6d0cc1ff29cb68a02350003c99ca3ce740cc27
ref:      refs/pull/904/merge
Labels:
owner:    Cantera
repo:     cantera

Dump context
Dump Payload
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> run id: 237694615
> workflow id: 484
target event: pull_request
target branch: limit-ci-runtime

> current run not found

Edit: one job apparently tried to cancel, but errored ....

This may be linked to the following note on repository_dispatch here:

Note: This event will only trigger a workflow run if the workflow file is on the master or default branch.

Per previous discussion, I believe it may be good from a sustainability viewpoint to cancel redundant jobs - lots of CPU time wasted.

[ischoegl]

Could not get this to run on one of my own repos either. Closing