Pause Community Contributions workflow (exercism/python)

The Pause Community Contributions workflow from exercism/python, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

What it does

This is the Pause Community Contributions workflow from the exercism/python 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: Pause Community Contributions

on:
  issues:
    types:
      - opened
  pull_request_target:
    types:
      - opened
    paths-ignore:
      - 'exercises/*/*/.approaches/**'
      - 'exercises/*/*/.articles/**'

permissions:
  issues: write
  pull-requests: write

jobs:
  pause:
    if: github.repository_owner == 'exercism' # Stops this job from running on forks
    uses: exercism/github-actions/.github/workflows/community-contributions.yml@main
    with:
      forum_category: python
    secrets:
      github_membership_token: ${{ secrets.COMMUNITY_CONTRIBUTIONS_WORKFLOW_TOKEN }}

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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

name: Pause Community Contributions
 
on:
  issues:
    types:
      - opened
  pull_request_target:
    types:
      - opened
    paths-ignore:
      - 'exercises/*/*/.approaches/**'
      - 'exercises/*/*/.articles/**'
 
permissions:
  issues: write
  pull-requests: write
 
jobs:
  pause:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    if: github.repository_owner == 'exercism' # Stops this job from running on forks
    uses: exercism/github-actions/.github/workflows/community-contributions.yml@main
    with:
      forum_category: python
    secrets:
      github_membership_token: ${{ secrets.COMMUNITY_CONTRIBUTIONS_WORKFLOW_TOKEN }}
 

What changed

• 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 per trigger. On Latchkey the same minutes cost up to 58% less than GitHub-hosted, with zero queue time.