jakejarvis / wait-action

💤 Very, very simple (and small) action to sleep for an amount of time — 10s, 2m, etc.

GitHub Action for Sleeping 💤

⚠️ This action is unmaintained.

This action was published way back in the GitHub Actions beta and is largely abandoned now, mostly because there are much better ways to pause a job than building a whole Docker container on each run (which only works on Linux jobs, too). I highly recommend replacing this action with the following code snippets.

On Linux and macOS runners, use the sleep command:

- name: Sleep for 30 seconds
  run: sleep 30s
  shell: bash

On Windows runners, use the Start-Sleep command:

- name: Sleep for 30 seconds
  run: Start-Sleep -s 30
  shell: powershell

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This is a very, very simple (and small — only ~1.2 MB thanks to busybox) action to wait a specified amount of time before moving on in your workflow.

Input follows the Linux sleep syntax for time units: a number followed by s for seconds, m for minutes, etc. Man page for sleep here.

Usage

jobs:
  deploy:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - name: Sleep for 30 seconds
      uses: jakejarvis/wait-action@master
      with:
        time: '30s'

License

This project is distributed under the MIT license.

wait-action's Issues

[warning]Unexpected input 'time', valid inputs are ['']

Using the suggested syntax from the README this action works great (as expected), but GitHub Actions logs always reports a warning:

##[warning]Unexpected input 'time', valid inputs are ['']

Looking around online, it appears this may be a new behavior from Github Actions while it's in beta.

ref: wearerequired/lint-action#53
Excerpt from 17 hours ago as of this writing: "I've just gotten the same thing pop up, I was testing this last week and wasn't hitting it, all of a sudden it has appeared."

Not sure what the fix is yet, but it seems likely Github Actions beta will announce a way to specify expected input values, probably resolving this.

Sleep until the branch is 15m old

Hey!

Is it somehow possible to sleep a time-periode, relative to the branch creation date?

In our automation we want to run github jobs when they are at least 15 mins old, therefore sleep for 15 mins only newly created branches or e.g. 0s when the branch is older then 15 min...

Is this kind of scenario support with this action?
Could you give me a pointer?