Yes, but at least you don't have to wait 19 hours to do so (github
actions also doesn't let you restart jobs until they're all completed,
or cancelled I suppose).

Alex

On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 3:54 PM Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
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> That's too bad, we really should ask for this.
>
> A timeout on a job still marks it as failed, I presume, so we still have to restart all jobs... :-(
>
> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 12:40 PM Alex Gaynor <alex.gaynor@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Github actions doesn't have the ability to restart individual jobs,
>> sadly (I've asked for this when they've done research sessions).
>>
>> FWIW, I'd recommend adding a timeout to jobs (it can be set in the YML
>> file), that way hung jobs don't hang for hours and hours.
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> On Tue, Jun 22, 2021 at 3:16 PM Guido van Rossum <guido@python.org> wrote:
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>> > Quite frequently I see PRs that have all but one test green, and one test just hanging for a long time (e.g. 19 hours). It would be useful to have the ability to restart a particular test rather than re-running all tests (by closing and reopening the PR). Does this functionality exist? IIRC on Travis-CI it did exist, but only for privileged users. Does GitHub Actions have such a thing?
>> >
>> > Example: https://github.com/python/cpython/pull/25551 -- the Address Sanitizer run has been waiting for 19 hours.
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