Generate Sponsors README workflow (meodai/color-names)

The Generate Sponsors README workflow from meodai/color-names, explained and optimized by Latchkey.

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Source: meodai/color-names.github/workflows/updatesponsors.ymlLicense MITView source

What it does

This is the Generate Sponsors README workflow from the meodai/color-names 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

workflow (.yml)

name: Generate Sponsors README
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule:
    - cron: 30 15 * * 0-6
permissions:
  contents: write
jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Checkout 🛎️
        uses: actions/checkout@v2

      - name: Generate Sponsors 💖
        uses: JamesIves/github-sponsors-readme-action@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
          file: 'README.md'

      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages 🚀
        uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@v4
        with:
          branch: main
          folder: '.'

The same workflow, on Latchkey

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

name: Generate Sponsors README
on:
  workflow_dispatch:
  schedule:
    - cron: 30 15 * * 0-6
permissions:
  contents: write
jobs:
  deploy:
    timeout-minutes: 30
    runs-on: latchkey-small
    steps:
      - name: Checkout 🛎️
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
 
      - name: Generate Sponsors 💖
        uses: JamesIves/github-sponsors-readme-action@v1
        with:
          token: ${{ secrets.PAT }}
          file: 'README.md'
 
      - name: Deploy to GitHub Pages 🚀
        uses: JamesIves/github-pages-deploy-action@v4
        with:
          branch: main
          folder: '.'

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.

2 third-party actions are referenced by a movable tag. Pin them 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.

Actions used in this workflow

actions/checkout