[jeremy]

#201's wait loop added 30 to ELAPSED per sleep, so each poll's request and jq ran on top of the 5.5-hour budget. Over ~660 polls that overhead can push the loop past the job's timeout-minutes: 340, and the job gets killed before it prints the "Timed out waiting" error and final status.

This uses bash's SECONDS, which measures wall-clock time, so the wait ends at 19,800 s and leaves about 10 minutes of the 340 for the report. It's the same fix as hey-sdk f26a09b, which came from Copilot's finding on hey-sdk#264.

The request budget is unchanged: one actions/runs request per 30 s poll, about 120 an hour against GITHUB_TOKEN's 1,000.

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Summary by cubic

Fixes the release wait loop so wall-clock time, not just the sleep intervals, counts toward the 5.5-hour budget.

• The old ELAPSED counter added 30 s per sleep, ignoring each poll's API request and jq processing, so ~660 polls could push the loop past the job's 340-minute timeout before the "Timed out waiting" error and final status printed.
• Bash's SECONDS measures wall-clock time, ending the wait at 19,800 s and leaving about 10 minutes of the 340 for the report.
• The request budget is unchanged: one actions/runs request per 30 s poll.

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🟢 Approved

The focused timer change correctly includes polling overhead without changing release gating, and no blocking issues remain.

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What changed in this PR

Corrects the release wait introduced in #201 so polling overhead counts toward the 5.5-hour budget.

Changes:

• Replaces the sleep-only counter with Bash’s SECONDS.
• Updates elapsed-time logging while preserving polling frequency and release gating.

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File	Description
.github/​workflows/​release-github.yml	Counts requests, processing, and sleeps toward the release wait budget.

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