CleanUp GitHub Actions

Our Github actions are a mess, we started and improved them over time, we renamed them etc. But now we do have some old Actions in there, which we do not need anymore. Sadly there is no GUI way of deleting them, but we can delete them via api.

We should delete all GitHub Actions which are deactivated:

• JUnit build
• Experimental Build
• Release Trigger

within this GitHub support question answer, we do have all the script paths we need. The executor needs to have jq and gh installed.

1. Fetching the workflow IDs with

OWNER=<your user/org name>
REPO=<repo name>

# list workflows
gh api -X GET /repos/$OWNER/$REPO/actions/workflows | jq '.workflows[] | .name,.id'

1. Deleting all workflow runs with

OWNER=<your user/org name>
REPO=<repo name>
# copy the ID of the workflow you want to clear and set it
WORKFLOW_ID=<workflow id>

# list runs
gh api -X GET /repos/$OWNER/$REPO/actions/workflows/$WORKFLOW_ID/runs | jq '.workflow_runs[] | .id'

# delete all runs
gh api -X GET /repos/$OWNER/$REPO/actions/workflows/$WORKFLOW_ID/runs | jq '.workflow_runs[] | .id' | xargs -I{} gh api -X DELETE /repos/$OWNER/$REPO/actions/runs/{}

[nipafx]

This comment made me think that, if #502 decides to pull in optional dependencies, modular builds should be part of the basic builds.

[nipafx]

@aepfli I’ve cleaned out two of them manually but have capitulated for the third, which must have hundreds and hundreds of builds. Can you delete them automatically? 🥺