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Added custom timeout to ci (#7641)
### Change Summary
Added custom timeout for `build_mingw` job of the `CI-mingw` workflow
based on historical data.
### More details
Over the last 7456 successful runs, the `build_mingw` job has a maximum
runtime of 13 minutes (mean=4, std=2).
However, there are failed runs that fail after reaching the threshold of
6 hours that GitHub imposes. In other words, these jobs seem to get
stuck, possibly for external or random reasons.
One such example is
[this](https://github.com/danmar/cppcheck/actions/runs/14355314540/job/40243296664)
job run, that failed after 6 hours. More stuck jobs have been observed
over the last six months, the first one on 2025-01-01 and the last one
one on 2025-04-09, while more recent occurences are also possible
because our dataset has a cutoff date around late May. With the proposed
changes, a total of **45 hours would have been saved** over the last six
months retrospectively, clearing the queue for other workflows and
**speeding up the CI** of the project, while also **saving resources**
in general.
The idea is to set a timeout to stop jobs that run much longer than
their historical maximum, because such jobs are probably stuck and will
simply fail with a timeout at 6 hours.
Our PR proposes to set the timeout to `max + 3*std = 19 minutes` where
`max` and `std` (standard deviation) are derived from the history of
7456 successful runs. This will provide sufficient margin if the
workflow gets naturally slower in the future, but if you would prefer
lower/higher threshold we would be happy to do it.
### Context
Hi,
We are a team of [researchers](https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zest.html) from
University of Zurich and we are currently working on energy
optimizations in GitHub Actions workflows.
Thanks for your time on this.
Feel free to let us know (here or in the email below) if you have any
questions, and thanks for putting in the time to read this.
Best regards,
[Konstantinos
Kitsios](https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zest/team/konstantinos_kitsios.html)
konstantinos.kitsios@uzh.ch
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