From 4af2e6be30e2f663ed79fc20954bbbb990efacdc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Lawrence Chen <54008264+lawrencecchen@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2026 15:42:09 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Remove hourly cron and skipped job from nightly workflow
 (#817)

Every merge to main already triggers a nightly build, making the hourly
cron redundant. The skipped job was cosmetic (just echoed a message) and
caused confusing red X statuses when cancel-in-progress kicked in.
---
 .github/workflows/nightly.yml | 12 ------------
 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
index 702c5d8f..da320e73 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/nightly.yml
@@ -3,9 +3,6 @@ name: Nightly macOS build
 on:
   push:
     branches: [main]
-  schedule:
-    # Every hour at :30. The 'decide' job skips if main has no new commits.
-    - cron: "30 * * * *"
   workflow_dispatch:
     inputs:
       force:
@@ -367,12 +364,3 @@ jobs:
         run: |
           security delete-keychain build.keychain >/dev/null 2>&1 || true
           rm -f /tmp/cert.p12
-
-  skipped:
-    needs: decide
-    if: needs.decide.outputs.should_build != 'true'
-    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
-    steps:
-      - name: No nightly build needed
-        run: |
-          echo "No changes on main since last nightly tag; skipping build."