Scheduled workflow not triggering on self-hosted Gitea (v1.25.5)

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Hi everyone,

I’m running Gitea 1.25.5 self-hosted via Docker and I can’t get a scheduled workflow to trigger automatically. The “Start actions schedule tasks” cron task is active in the list and runs every minute correctly (I can see it in Site Administration → Cron Tasks with regular execution timestamps), but my workflow is never executed on schedule. Manual triggering via workflow_dispatch works fine.

My setup:

  • Gitea 1.25.5 with TZ=Europe/Rome

  • Runner: act_runner registered as Instance-level, currently idle

  • Workflow file located at .gitea/workflows/issue-reminders.yml on the default branch

on:
  workflow_dispatch:
    inputs:
      schedule_override:
        description: 'Simulate schedule (daily/weekly)'
        required: true
        default: 'daily'
        type: choice
        options:
          - daily
          - weekly
  schedule:
    - cron: '0 8 * * 1-5'
    - cron: '0 8 * * 1'

jobs:
  daily-personal:
    if: github.event.schedule == '0 8 * * 1-5' || github.event.inputs.schedule_override == 'daily'
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: Example step
        run: echo "daily"

Any suggestions on what might be preventing the schedule from registering?

Thanks in advance.

2

Ok, it is Gitea bug, github.event.schedule is empty so the workflow never enter in “if” condition.
Fixed with script with date and time calculation to validate execution.

3

This should have been fixed by Add event.schedule context for schedule actions task by lunny · Pull Request #37320 · go-gitea/gitea · GitHub