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Github action workflow 'timeline' view.

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Assessment

Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
35/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
github-actions, typescript, vscode

Research direction

No files or tests are named. Start at the completed workflow run view and trace how job and step durations are currently exposed; done means a horizontal timeline clearly shows the duration and relative ordering of each job or step, including parallel and dependent work.

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Description

enhancement

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Right now it is difficult to visualise how long a workflow ran for, especially if there is a workflow with lots of parallel / dependent steps. I know you can look at the durations etc, but a nicer visualisation is missing.

Describe the solution you'd like
When clicking on / viewing a completed workflow run, have some kind of horizontal 'timeline' view. You'd have horizontal bars indicating how long each job / step ran for.

Additional context
Add any other context or screenshots about the feature request here.

Dominant language
TypeScript
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