From 4fb2baaf92481b8ea2e2224eeb5a0e81d26c1c84 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: per1234 <accounts@perglass.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 21:45:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Add schedule triggers to workflows whenever possible

This repository contains several GitHub Actions workflows to facilitate the development and maintenance.

The workflows are typically configured to run whenever any relevant file in the repository is changed. However, the
results of the workflow run are also dependent on the external environment it runs in, which include:

- The software running on the GitHub hosted GitHub Actions runner machines
- The GitHub Actions actions used by the workflow
- The dependencies that are installed by the workflow directly or via the GitHub Actions actions it uses

The workflows often do not fully pin to a specific version of given external tool. This was done in the interest on
reducing the maintenance burden of keeping the systems up to date. However, it also means that a new release can cause
the workflow runs to start failing (which might happen through an enhancement to that resource resolving a false
negative, or a defect causing a false negative).

When the repository file path trigger is used by itself, this sort of external breakage is only revealed when an
unrelated change triggers the workflow. That can be distracting even to a dedicated member of the project development
team, as well as confusing and discouraging to any contributor.

This type of change can be caught by adding a `schedule` event trigger that causes the workflow to run periodically in
addition to the other on-demand triggers. This allows the problem to be identified and resolved at the maintainer's
convenience, separate from the unrelated development work.
---
 .github/workflows/check-go-task.yml                  | 3 +++
 .github/workflows/check-license.yml                  | 3 +++
 .github/workflows/check-mkdocs-task.yml              | 3 +++
 .github/workflows/check-prettier-formatting-task.yml | 3 +++
 .github/workflows/check-python-task.yml              | 3 +++
 .github/workflows/test-go-integration-task.yml       | 3 +++
 .github/workflows/test-go-task.yml                   | 3 +++
 7 files changed, 21 insertions(+)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-go-task.yml b/.github/workflows/check-go-task.yml
index 9c946dcc..02615f3e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check-go-task.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-go-task.yml
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ on:
       - "**/go.mod"
       - "**/go.sum"
       - "**.go"
+  schedule:
+    # Run periodically to catch breakage caused by external changes.
+    - cron: "0 7 * * WED"
   workflow_dispatch:
   repository_dispatch:
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-license.yml b/.github/workflows/check-license.yml
index ea206825..a364c738 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check-license.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-license.yml
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ on:
       - "[lL][iI][cC][eE][nN][cCsS][eE]*"
       - "[oO][fF][lL]*"
       - "[pP][aA][tT][eE][nN][tT][sS]*"
+  schedule:
+    # Run periodically to catch breakage caused by external changes.
+    - cron: "0 6 * * WED"
   workflow_dispatch:
   repository_dispatch:
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-mkdocs-task.yml b/.github/workflows/check-mkdocs-task.yml
index 6be610bd..2cd3cc02 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check-mkdocs-task.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-mkdocs-task.yml
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ on:
       - "docsgen/**"
       - "ruledocsgen/**"
       - "**.go"
+  schedule:
+    # Run periodically to catch breakage caused by external changes.
+    - cron: "0 5 * * WED"
   workflow_dispatch:
   repository_dispatch:
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-prettier-formatting-task.yml b/.github/workflows/check-prettier-formatting-task.yml
index 933ef9b5..662ff5ae 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check-prettier-formatting-task.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-prettier-formatting-task.yml
@@ -196,6 +196,9 @@ on:
       - "**.rviz"
       - "**.sublime-syntax"
       - "**.syntax"
+  schedule:
+    # Run periodically to catch breakage caused by external changes.
+    - cron: "0 4 * * WED"
   workflow_dispatch:
   repository_dispatch:
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/check-python-task.yml b/.github/workflows/check-python-task.yml
index 47ae0de4..1dc0313e 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/check-python-task.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/check-python-task.yml
@@ -28,6 +28,9 @@ on:
       - "Taskfile.ya?ml"
       - "**/tox.ini"
       - "**.py"
+  schedule:
+    # Run periodically to catch breakage caused by external changes.
+    - cron: "0 8 * * WED"
   workflow_dispatch:
   repository_dispatch:
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-go-integration-task.yml b/.github/workflows/test-go-integration-task.yml
index 35a000fc..7f86a8de 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-go-integration-task.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-go-integration-task.yml
@@ -30,6 +30,9 @@ on:
       - "poetry.lock"
       - "pyproject.toml"
       - "tests/**"
+  schedule:
+    # Run periodically to catch breakage caused by external changes.
+    - cron: "0 10 * * WED"
   workflow_dispatch:
   repository_dispatch:
 
diff --git a/.github/workflows/test-go-task.yml b/.github/workflows/test-go-task.yml
index 773670f9..2b14512b 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/test-go-task.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/test-go-task.yml
@@ -26,6 +26,9 @@ on:
       - "Taskfile.ya?ml"
       - "**.go"
       - "**/testdata/**"
+  schedule:
+    # Run periodically to catch breakage caused by external changes.
+    - cron: "0 11 * * WED"
   workflow_dispatch:
   repository_dispatch: