Trigger Website Update workflow (electerm/electerm)

The Trigger Website Update workflow from electerm/electerm, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

What it does

This is the Trigger Website Update workflow from the electerm/electerm repository, a real project running GitHub Actions. It is shown here with attribution under its MIT license.

Below, Latchkey shows a faster, safer version produced by its optimization engine.

The workflow

name: Trigger Website Update

on:
  release:
    types: [published]
  workflow_dispatch:

jobs:
  trigger-website-update:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    environment: build
    strategy:
      matrix:
        repository:
          - electerm/electerm.org
          - electerm/repos
          - electerm/electerm-data-tool
    steps:
      - name: Trigger ${{ matrix.repository }} repository workflow
        uses: peter-evans/repository-dispatch@v2
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.PAT_REPO_TOKEN }}
          repository: ${{ matrix.repository }}
          event-type: electerm-release

The same workflow, on Latchkey

Removes redundant runs and caps runaway jobs. Added and changed lines are highlighted.

name: Trigger Website Update
 
on:
  release:
    types: [published]
  workflow_dispatch:
 
jobs:
  trigger-website-update:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    environment: build
    strategy:
      matrix:
        repository:
          - electerm/electerm.org
          - electerm/repos
          - electerm/electerm-data-tool
    steps:
      - name: Trigger ${{ matrix.repository }} repository workflow
        uses: peter-evans/repository-dispatch@v2
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.PAT_REPO_TOKEN }}
          repository: ${{ matrix.repository }}
          event-type: electerm-release

What changed

• Run on Latchkey managed runners with one line (runs-on), which apply the fixes below automatically and self-heal transient failures. This example uses latchkey-small; pick the runner size that fits the job.
• Add a job timeout so a hung step cannot burn hours of runner time.

1 third-party action is referenced by a movable tag. Pin it to the commit SHA (Latchkey resolves and applies this automatically) so a repointed tag cannot change what runs.

This workflow runs 1 job (3 with the matrix expanded) per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.