GH Actions: don't run cron jobs on forks #982
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While workflows are disabled by default in forks, it is quite common for contributors to enable them to verify CI will pass before submitting a pull request.
When enabling workflow runs in forks, it's "all or nothing".
This means that:
* All workflows which are only intended to be run on the canonical repo will also be enabled.
These workflows will also often need access to repo-specific secrets and will typically fail when run from a fork.
* Workflows which contain cron jobs will also be enabled.
Depending on the type of account the contributor has, this can burn through their "CI minutes".
This commit is based on a review of workflows containing cron jobs and disables running the jobs when a cron job is triggered in a fork.
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While workflows are disabled by default in forks, it is quite common for contributors to enable them to verify CI will pass before submitting a pull request.
When enabling workflow runs in forks, it's "all or nothing". This means that:
These workflows will also often need access to repo-specific secrets and will typically fail when run from a fork.
Depending on the type of account the contributor has, this can burn through their "CI minutes".
This commit is based on a review of workflows containing cron jobs and disables running these two particular jobs when the workflow is triggered in a fork (either by a cron job or via the
workflow_dispatchtrigger).