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0xMarcio 82936168a5 Keep the hourly refresh on GitHub with a pacemaker chain
GitHub's cron scheduler creates this repository's scheduled runs four to
five hours late and drops the slots in between, so the hourly Hot CVEs
refresh cannot come from a cron. A workflow_dispatch call creates a run
within seconds, so a pacemaker workflow now sleeps until the next :05,
fires the refresh and its own successor, and keeps time by itself. Its
cron only restarts the chain if a link fails.

Hot CVEs loses its cron and the gate that was there to coexist with an
external trigger; nothing outside GitHub is involved any more.
2026-09-03 23:02:52 +02:00

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name: Pacemaker
# GitHub's cron scheduler creates this repository's scheduled runs four to
# five hours late and drops the slots in between, so the hourly refresh cannot
# come from a cron. A workflow_dispatch call creates a run within seconds, so
# each pacemaker run sleeps until the next :05, fires the Hot CVEs refresh and
# its own successor, and the chain keeps time by itself. The cron below only
# restarts the chain if a link ever fails; while the chain is alive the
# concurrency group holds the extra run back and the next link cancels it.
on:
workflow_dispatch:
schedule:
- cron: '7 * * * *'
permissions:
actions: write
concurrency:
group: pacemaker
cancel-in-progress: false
jobs:
tick:
runs-on: ubuntu-latest
timeout-minutes: 70
steps:
- name: Sleep until the next :05, then fire the hourly refresh
env:
GH_TOKEN: ${{ github.token }}
run: |
now=$(date -u +%s)
next=$(( now / 3600 * 3600 + 300 ))
[ "$next" -gt "$now" ] || next=$(( next + 3600 ))
echo "Sleeping $(( (next - now) / 60 )) minutes until $(date -u -d @"$next" +%H:%M) UTC"
sleep $(( next - now ))
gh workflow run hot_cves.yml --ref main
gh workflow run pacemaker.yml --ref main