tools: use ubuntu-slim runner in meta GitHub Actions by bnb · Pull Request #61663 · nodejs/node · GitHub

This PR updates a number of runners that do simple-ish meta work (think: labeling PRs, checking activity, sending Slack notifications) to use the ubuntu-slim runner rather than ubuntu-latest. If they all still work, this should reduce the amount of compute that we're using over time - less energy, less allocation of resources - for simple tasks that don't really need it.

Signed-off-by: Tierney Cyren <hello@bnb.im>

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----------------------------------- PR info ------------------------------------
Title      tools: use ubuntu-slim runner in meta GitHub Actions (#61663)
Author     Tierney Cyren <hello@bnb.im> (@bnb)
Branch     bnb:bnb/use-ubuntu-slim-where-appropriate -> nodejs:main
Labels     meta, author ready, lts-watch-v20.x, lts-watch-v22.x
Commits    2
 - tools: use ubuntu-slim runner in meta GitHub Actions
 - Merge branch 'main' into bnb/use-ubuntu-slim-where-appropriate
Committers 2
 - Tierney Cyren <hello@bnb.im>
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PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61663
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <richard.lau@ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
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PR-URL: https://github.com/nodejs/node/pull/61663
Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <richard.lau@ibm.com>
Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com>
Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>
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Looks like this has broken Dockerised actions, such as notify-on-push.

Appears the already-containerised nature of ubuntu-slim means that Docker is intentionally unavailable on these runners.

Signed-off-by: Tierney Cyren <hello@bnb.im> PR-URL: #61663 Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <richard.lau@ibm.com> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>

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**doc**: mention default option for test runner env (Steven) [#61659](nodejs/node#61659) - \[[`41ec451f98`](nodejs/node@41ec451f98)] - **doc**: fix --inspect security warning section (Tim Perry) [#61675](nodejs/node#61675) - \[[`bb90ef2356`](nodejs/node@bb90ef2356)] - **doc**: document `url.format(urlString)` as deprecated under DEP0169 (René) [#61644](nodejs/node#61644) - \[[`513df82e6f`](nodejs/node@513df82e6f)] - **doc**: update to Visual Studio 2026 manual install (Mike McCready) [#61655](nodejs/node#61655) - \[[`9409d30736`](nodejs/node@9409d30736)] - **doc**: deprecation add more codemod (Augustin Mauroy) [#61642](nodejs/node#61642) - \[[`75a7a67151`](nodejs/node@75a7a67151)] - **doc**: fix grammatical error in README.md (ayj8201) [#61653](nodejs/node#61653) - \[[`821e59e884`](nodejs/node@821e59e884)] - **doc**: correct tools README Boxstarter link (Mike McCready) [#61638](nodejs/node#61638) - \[[`4998f539a0`](nodejs/node@4998f539a0)] - **doc**: update `server.dropMaxConnection` link (YuSheng Chen) [#61584](nodejs/node#61584) - 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\[[`72a4136bd5`](nodejs/node@72a4136bd5)] - **meta**: bump actions/cache from 5.0.1 to 5.0.3 (dependabot\[bot]) [#61624](nodejs/node#61624) - \[[`e3ef6cb3bc`](nodejs/node@e3ef6cb3bc)] - **meta**: bump peter-evans/create-pull-request from 8.0.0 to 8.1.0 (dependabot\[bot]) [#61623](nodejs/node#61623) - \[[`020a836202`](nodejs/node@020a836202)] - **meta**: bump actions/stale from 10.1.0 to 10.1.1 (dependabot\[bot]) [#61620](nodejs/node#61620) - \[[`0df72f07c8`](nodejs/node@0df72f07c8)] - **meta**: bump actions/checkout from 6.0.1 to 6.0.2 (dependabot\[bot]) [#61619](nodejs/node#61619) - \[[`d147c08b83`](nodejs/node@d147c08b83)] - **module**: do not invoke resolve hooks twice for imported cjs (Joyee Cheung) [#61529](nodejs/node#61529) - \[[`a2843f8556`](nodejs/node@a2843f8556)] - **net**: defer synchronous destroy calls in internalConnect (RajeshKumar11) [#61658](nodejs/node#61658) - \[[`7fb7030781`](nodejs/node@7fb7030781)] - **repl**: fix flaky test-repl-programmatic-history (Matteo Collina) [#61614](nodejs/node#61614) - 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Signed-off-by: Tierney Cyren <hello@bnb.im> PR-URL: #61663 Reviewed-By: Antoine du Hamel <duhamelantoine1995@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Richard Lau <richard.lau@ibm.com> Reviewed-By: Luigi Pinca <luigipinca@gmail.com> Reviewed-By: Colin Ihrig <cjihrig@gmail.com>

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