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Problem

Twelve jobs in nine workflows set no timeout-minutes, so a stuck step can hold a runner for GitHub's 360-minute default. Most of them are bot and label jobs that finish in under two minutes, and four run on 8-vCPU Blacksmith runners. #1825 gave every CI and release job an explicit budget, and 13 of the 19 workflows added since set their own, but these twelve jobs never got one.

Change

Each of the twelve jobs now has a timeout-minutes, placed after runs-on like the other workflows. The budgets use the 5, 10, 20 and 30 minute values most jobs here already use, and each is at least twice the longest recent run:

Workflow Job Longest recent run Timeout
issue-labels sync 0.3 min 5
pr-size prepare-config, sync-label-definitions 1.2 min (whole run) 5
pr-size label 1.2 min (whole run) 10
pr-vouch collect-targets, label 0.4 min (whole run) 5
thread-transfer-report publish 0.8 min 5
stale-needs-more-info stale 1.6 min 10
mobile-fingerprint-check fingerprint 1.4 min 10
mobile-eas-preview, mobile-eas-preview-fork preview 9.5 min 20
mobile-eas-production production 15 min 30

"Longest recent run" uses successful runs among each workflow's latest 100 runs, supplemented by each EAS workflow's latest 100 successful runs where available (all 6 and 9 runs for issue-labels and stale). The fork preview has no successful run yet, so it takes the same budget as the preview job it mirrors. Reusable-workflow jobs (uses:) can't set timeout-minutes and are unchanged.

The EAS jobs start native builds with --no-wait, directly in production and through Expo's fingerprint action in the preview jobs, so the timeout covers install, fingerprinting and the OTA upload, not the EAS build itself.

Scope and approval

This is CI maintenance with no product behavior change, so it needs no prior issue or discussion under the small-fix rule. It extends the budgets #1825 set to the jobs that still lack one. A job that runs normally is unaffected; only a run that would have hung now stops sooner. If a budget looks tight for a job you expect to grow, it is a one-line change.

Verification

  • Parsed every workflow and listed jobs without timeout-minutes, excluding reusable-workflow jobs: 12 on main, 0 on this branch.
  • actionlint on the nine files reports the same findings before and after (only the custom blacksmith-8vcpu-ubuntu-2404 runner label).
  • vp run check:changed: format, typecheck and tests pass.
  • Run times come from the Actions API: each workflow's latest 100 runs, separate success-only queries for the EAS workflows, and the longest cancelled and failed runs. No job spent more than 15 minutes on a runner. Every longer run either waited for a runner until it was cancelled or failed before any job started, and timeout-minutes doesn't count that time.

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  • A hung run. No run of these jobs has hung recently, so this is a guardrail, not a fix for an observed outage.

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Generated with Claude Opus 5.5 in T3 Code Nightly

Twelve jobs across nine workflows had no timeout-minutes, so a hung
step could hold a runner for GitHub's 360-minute default. Give each
one a budget in the repo's existing tiers, well above its observed
run time.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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Verdict: Approved at c00d2ad

Macroscope's review found this PR approvable — Adds explicit execution limits to twelve workflow jobs instead of GitHub’s six-hour default. Reported runtime measurements leave substantial headroom, while deployment commands and permissions remain unchanged.

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Walkthrough

Timeout limits were added to jobs in nine GitHub Actions workflows. The configured limits range from 5 to 30 minutes.

Changes: Workflow job timeouts

Layer / File(s) Summary
Set job timeout limits
.github/workflows/issue-labels.yml, .github/workflows/pr-size.yml, .github/workflows/pr-vouch.yml, .github/workflows/stale-needs-more-info.yml, .github/workflows/thread-transfer-report.yml, .github/workflows/mobile-eas-preview-fork.yml, .github/workflows/mobile-eas-preview.yml, .github/workflows/mobile-eas-production.yml, .github/workflows/mobile-fingerprint-check.yml
Jobs in these workflows now have timeout limits. The limits range from 5 to 30 minutes.

Estimated code review effort: 1 (Trivial) | ~5 minutes

Change: Other

Suggested reviewers: juliusmarminge

Merge Risk: Low · up to 8128e

Production crash reports may lack symbolication if a later OTA target stalls. The change is mergeable with follow-up to preserve those maps.

Pre-merge checks: Passed 4

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Title check Passed The title describes the change: adding timeouts to workflow jobs. It is concise and clearly related to the primary change.
Description check Passed The description includes all required sections. It explains the problem, the timeout changes, the scope and approval rationale, and the verification performed, including what was not checked.
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Written by claude-opus-5-5 on behalf of Maria

Takeover fixup:

  • Merged current main (no rebase). One conflict in mobile-eas-production.yml: kept both the timeout-minutes: 30 and main's new concurrency block on the production job. Recent production runs on main take 3 to 7 minutes, so 30 still fits.
  • Main added an android job to mobile-eas-preview.yml without a timeout. Gave it timeout-minutes: 20, the same as the iOS preview job it mirrors (its successful runs take 2 to 3 minutes). With that, every non-reusable job in .github/workflows has a timeout again.
  • One successful preview run took 87 minutes. 83 of those were a hung Setup Vite+ step, the case these budgets are meant to stop, so 20 stays.
  • vp run check:changed passes (format, typecheck, tests). There were no review findings to address.

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🤖 Opus 5.5 replying on behalf of Victor.

Thanks @maria-rcks for carrying this over main. Keeping both the 30-minute budget and main's new concurrency block on the production job is the right merge. The android preview job also needed the 20-minute budget its iOS twin has. I checked 8128e6f3f and every job in .github/workflows that runs its own steps now has a timeout-minutes. The 87-minute run with an 83-minute hung Setup Vite+ step is exactly the case these budgets are meant to stop. Leaving the branch to you.

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Review comments at @.github/workflows/mobile-eas-production.yml:
- Line 79: Adjust the job-level timeout-minutes setting so target execution
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name: EAS ${{ inputs.profile || 'production' }} ${{ github.event_name == 'push' && 'auto' || inputs.mode }}
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runs-on: blacksmith-8vcpu-ubuntu-2404
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Minor · Data Integrity & Integration · Quick win

Preserve source maps for updates published before a timeout.

If a later target stalls after an OTA is published, the job timeout cancels the job. The !cancelled() guard then skips the source-map upload at Line 469. Crash stacks from the published update cannot be symbolicated until its maps are uploaded. Reserve time for that upload before the job-level deadline. (docs.github.com)

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Review comment at @.github/workflows/mobile-eas-production.yml at line 79:
Adjust the job-level timeout-minutes setting so target execution cannot consume
the full deadline and the source-map upload step guarded by !cancelled() has
time to complete after an OTA is published.

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🤖 Opus 5.5 replying on behalf of Victor.

The mechanism is right: when the job-level timeout fires, the job is cancelled, so Upload OTA source maps (!cancelled()) is skipped even if reconcile already published an OTA. This PR doesn't introduce that, though. Without timeout-minutes: 30, the same stall gets cancelled at the six-hour default, and the upload is skipped the same way. The budget only makes it happen sooner.

If it's worth closing here, a step-level timeout on reconcile below the job's would do it. An expired step fails rather than being cancelled, so the upload step still runs:

      - id: reconcile
        name: Publish OTA or cut store build
        timeout-minutes: 20

@maria-rcks this is your call since you're carrying the PR. We've left the branch alone.

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