Waiting indefinitely to pick up a job for macos-latest-xl

[tmpfs]

Describe the bug

I have been trying all day to complete a workflow which relies on a macos-latest-xl runner but the job never gets picked up, is there an outage with the macos runners at the moment or a problem with macos-latest-xl?

To Reproduce

See this job: https://github.com/saveoursecrets/sdk/actions/runs/12461326991/job/34785678822

Just prints this and never gets picked up:

Requested labels: macos-latest-xl
Job defined at: saveoursecrets/sdk/.github/workflows/checks.yml@refs/tags/v0.16.1
Reusable workflow chain:
saveoursecrets/sdk/.github/workflows/release.yml@refs/tags/v0.16.1 (1ca27cf7dade543f8084fcf1c33f7f894a1cadf3)
-> saveoursecrets/sdk/.github/workflows/checks.yml@refs/tags/v0.16.1 (1ca27cf7dade543f8084fcf1c33f7f894a1cadf3)
Waiting for a runner to pick up this job...

I've tried many times today to get this job to complete, same issue every time.

Expected behavior

I expect the job to run.

[archiewood]

macos-latest-xl is not a valid runner name, you need macos-latest

https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-github-hosted-runners/using-github-hosted-runners/about-github-hosted-runners#standard-github-hosted-runners-for-public-repositories

[tmpfs]

@archiewood thanks for the info. So that was changed as it used to work fine. In fact it was required for me to use the xl variant with more cores to get my jobs to complete in a reasonable time.

It would have been helpful to alias the xl variant to its replacement or to write an unsupported error in github actions instead of silently failing.

[archiewood]

Or at least throw a better error rather than wait forever!