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From: Kitsios Konstantinos <kitsios.konst@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:22:44 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] [CI]: Cancel CI runs that become obsolete (#10339)
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## About the changes
Currently, if a PR is open and a push happens, the **e2e:frontend**
workflow will start running. If, shortly after a subsequent push on the
*same* PR happens, the workflow will start running again without
cancelling the previous (now obsolete) run. With these changes, the
first run would be cancelled, thus **saving compute resources** (see
below for quantity) that can be used to **speed up your overall CI/CD**,
without sacrificing functionality, since the second run will contain the
changes from the first push as well. 🌱

### Example
Here is an example of the behaviour described above: the commit
`b1b2e61` triggered
[this](https://github.com/Unleash/unleash/actions/runs/14493085673/)
workflow run, and shortly after the commit `9997fe1`, that happened on
top of the first commit, triggered
[this](https://github.com/Unleash/unleash/actions/runs/14493089012/)
workflow. Both workflows ran till the end, spending approximately 8 CPU
minutes each. With the proposed changes, the first run would be
cancelled, hence saving ~8 CPU minutes and clearing the queue for other
workflows. Note that this is an example of a single concurrent run; the
accumulated gain for all PRs would be higher, with a lower estimate at
**2 CPU hours** over the last few months.

The same holds for these workflow(s) as well: Dependency review, PR ->
Build Docs.

### Context
Hi,

We are a team of [researchers](https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zest.html) from
University of Zurich and we are currently working on energy
optimizations in GitHub Actions workflows.

Kindly let us know (here or in the email below) if you would like more
details, if you want to reject the proposed changes for other reasons,
or if you have any question whatsoever.

Best regards,
[Konstantinos
Kitsios](https://www.ifi.uzh.ch/en/zest/team/konstantinos_kitsios.html)
konstantinos.kitsios@uzh.ch
---
 .github/workflows/build_doc_prs.yaml    | 5 +++++
 .github/workflows/dependency-review.yml | 5 +++++
 .github/workflows/e2e.frontend.yaml     | 5 +++++
 3 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/build_doc_prs.yaml b/.github/workflows/build_doc_prs.yaml
index 9166157433..3f848a6243 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/build_doc_prs.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/build_doc_prs.yaml
@@ -5,6 +5,11 @@ on:
     paths:
       - website/**
 
+# If two events are triggered within a short time in the same PR, cancel the run of the oldest event
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 jobs:
   validate:
     name: build # temporary solution to trick branch protection rules
diff --git a/.github/workflows/dependency-review.yml b/.github/workflows/dependency-review.yml
index 2f2440a175..9b6c2210a0 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/dependency-review.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/dependency-review.yml
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ name: Dependency review
 on:
   pull_request:
 
+# If two events are triggered within a short time in the same PR, cancel the run of the oldest event
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 permissions:
   contents: read
   pull-requests: write
diff --git a/.github/workflows/e2e.frontend.yaml b/.github/workflows/e2e.frontend.yaml
index deabbf368d..79782680ef 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/e2e.frontend.yaml
+++ b/.github/workflows/e2e.frontend.yaml
@@ -3,6 +3,11 @@ on:
   pull_request:
     # paths:
     #   - 'frontend/**'
+# If two events are triggered within a short time in the same PR, cancel the run of the oldest event
+concurrency:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
 jobs:
   e2e:
     runs-on: ubuntu-latest