🐛 Bug: Test on Colab workflow keeps timing out and ends up failing.

[DhanshreeA]

Describe the bug.

GitHub runners by default a time limit of 6 hours. A job that takes longer than that fails because it gets canceled. The Test on Colab workflow seems to be stuck(?) and keeps running until the job automatically gets canceled. We will need to investigate this.

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[miquelduranfrigola]

I don't know what is happening to be honest. This is annoying and I am unsure whether it is related to Ersilia or not. Actually, it is not testing "Colab" per se, it is just testing the notebook. In my opinion, this test may eventually disappear since it periodically fails for some reason.

[DhanshreeA]

In the last discussion we came to the conclusion that currently the workflow is not representative of actually testing anything on Colab. It is also likely that the action times out because within the notebook we are fetching a model that hasn't been rebuilt and fails to fetch, which leaves ersilia hanging and therefore the entire workflow times out.

In any case, we have decided to redo this workflow to test a notebook in an actual Colab environment, something like this SO post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/77437999/google-colab-environment-container-testing-in-github-action