Add a pipeline delay to PrepareJob for avoiding a race-condition (finding closed PRs).

Author: Paebbels

.github/workflows/CompletePipeline.yml

@@ -152,6 +152,8 @@ on:
 jobs:
   Prepare:
     uses: pyTooling/Actions/.github/workflows/PrepareJob.yml@dev
+    with:
+      pipeline-delay: 10
 
   ConfigParams:
     uses: pyTooling/Actions/.github/workflows/ExtractConfiguration.yml@dev

.github/workflows/Parameters.yml

@@ -158,18 +158,18 @@ jobs:
       python_jobs:          ${{ steps.jobs.outputs.python_jobs }}
 
     steps:
+      - name: ⌛ Generate a startup delay of ${{ inputs.pipeline-delay }} seconds
+        id: delay
+        if: inputs.pipeline-delay >= 0
+        run: |
+          sleep ${{ inputs.pipeline-delay }}
+
       - name: ⏬ Checkout repository
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with:
           # The command 'git describe' (used for version) needs the history.
           fetch-depth: 0
 
-      - name: Generate a startup delay of ${{ inputs.pipeline-delay }} seconds
-        id: delay
-        if: inputs.pipeline-delay >= 0
-        run: |
-          sleep ${{ inputs.pipeline-delay }}
-
       - name: Generate 'python_version'
         id: variables
         shell: python

.github/workflows/PrepareJob.yml

@@ -54,6 +54,11 @@ on:
         required: false
         default: '(v|r)?[0-9]+(\.[0-9]+){0,2}(-(dev|alpha|beta|rc)([0-9]*))?'
         type: string
+      pipeline-delay:
+        description: 'Slow down this job, to delay the startup of the GitHub Action pipline.'
+        required: false
+        default: 0
+        type: number
 
     outputs:
       on_default_branch:
@@ -151,6 +156,12 @@ jobs:
       git_submodule_paths: ${{ steps.Classify.outputs.git_submodule_paths }}
 
     steps:
+      - name: ⌛ Generate a startup delay of ${{ inputs.pipeline-delay }} seconds
+        id: delay
+        if: inputs.pipeline-delay >= 0
+        run: |
+          sleep ${{ inputs.pipeline-delay }}
+
       - name: ⏬ Checkout repository
         uses: actions/checkout@v6
         with: