Do not Schedule Upstream-Only Workflows and Jobs in Forks
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Description
Problem
Running GitHub Actions in an OpenVMM fork schedules workflows and jobs that depend on infrastructure available only to microsoft/openvmm. These jobs fail, remain queued indefinitely, or block otherwise runnable checks.
Affected workloads include:
- Checkin jobs that require Microsoft 1ES self-hosted runner pools.
- The PR quick-check job, which uses a self-hosted runner and blocks all downstream checkin jobs.
- Publishing documentation to
openvmm.dev. - Refreshing the internal VSO mirror.
- Uploading Petri results to the OpenVMM Azure storage account.
- OpenHCL binary-size checks that retrieve baseline workflow runs and artifacts from
microsoft/openvmm.
The generated PR, release-PR, and CI workflows currently contain dozens of self-hosted jobs. Forks do not have access to those runner pools, repository secrets, Azure identities, internal services, or upstream Actions artifacts.
Reproduction
- Create an OpenVMM fork and enable GitHub Actions.
- Push to a configured branch or open a pull request within the fork.
- Observe the OpenVMM workflows.
Jobs requiring upstream-owned resources either remain pending, fail authentication, or prevent the aggregate checkin gate from reporting a useful result.
Expected behavior
- Workflows and jobs that require upstream-only infrastructure do not run in forks.
- Checks that can run using GitHub-hosted infrastructure continue to run.
- Skipped upstream-only jobs do not cause aggregate status checks to fail or remain pending.
- Existing behavior in
microsoft/openvmm, including draft-PR and release-label conditions, remains unchanged.
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- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
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