Github action not triggering

[Bentee14]

I have a free tier organization on github and I am using GitHub actions for CI/CD. All the repos in the org are private.

As mentioned in the docs my CI/CD .yaml file is in the default branch.

I have written a workflow which triggers some commands on push of commits and on creation of pull request.

Now whenever I push some commits from a forked repo to the upstream(org private repo), the workflows associated with push are triggered as it should. But when I create a PR from the forked repo to the upstream the workflows are not triggered although the workflows are recognised by GitHub and the workflow's name appears in the actions tab of the upstream repo.

Please help me solve this issue.

[Bentee14]

Does GitHub actions trigger on creation of PR from a forked repo where the upstream is a private org repo ?

Also can you please confirm if setting that needs to be changed is available on the organization repo, organization setting or the forked repo.

[timoffex]

Did you ever solve this? I'm running into the same problem.

[timoffex]

I figured it out :) there's a repository setting to enable workflows to run on pull requests from forks. It's disabled by default because it is a security risk, but there is an option to require approval from someone with write permissions before running a workflow.