Hi, We've reduced our CI usage from 198,402 minutes to 146,106 minutes (73%):
https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/50169#issuecomment-4785153675 Is it enough for now? Thanks, -- kou In <[email protected]> "Re: Consumption of ASF Shared GitHub-hosted Runner Resources" on Mon, 15 Jun 2026 06:06:09 +0900 (JST), Sutou Kouhei <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > Thanks for sharing them. > > I've opened https://github.com/apache/arrow/issues/50169 to > track our work. > > > Thanks, > -- > kou > > In <cafrfahpqhxkc0gx_0anc8+nonkf92biko40rxdz+r_bchxl...@mail.gmail.com> > "Consumption of ASF Shared GitHub-hosted Runner Resources" on Fri, 12 Jun > 2026 14:51:39 +0200, > Robert Thomson <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> In 2024, the ASF introduced the policy for GitHub Actions usage across >> the foundation[1]. As you have likely experienced, the ASF Github >> shared pool of Github-hosted runners has been at, or very close to the >> limit of 900 jobs most of the time in the past few weeks, causing jobs >> to queue for lengthy periods before running. >> >> Your project has been identified as being among the top consumers of >> build time over the past 7 days and we request that you make efforts >> to bring your usage down by stream-lining long-running builds and >> minimising the number of concurrent builds. >> >> You can use the infra reporting tool [2] to monitor your GHA usage as you >> work on stream-lining and to locate any bottlenecks in the workflows. >> >> There is now on-going community discussion on a Slack channel, >> “project-workflow-optimisations” about the topic of optimising GitHub >> Actions workflows so as to minimise both the number of concurrent jobs >> running on our limited allocation, and the number of long-running >> jobs. >> >> To share best practices between projects on this area we encourage >> projects to contribute to this cwiki page: >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/GitHub+Actions+Recommended+Practices >> >> It is also possible for a project to maintain their own self-hosted >> runners if they can provide a suitable VM/on-prem hardware to execute >> the runner: >> >> https://cwiki.apache.org/confluence/display/INFRA/GitHub+self-hosted+runners >> >> Kind regards, >> Bob Thomson, on behalf of ASF Infrastructure. >> >> >> [1] https://infra.apache.org/github-actions-policy.html >> [2] https://infra-reports.apache.org/#ghactions
