github: cancel a job if it takes longer than 40 minutes #2258
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in general, it takes less than 34 minutes to build the tree from scratch and to test all tests, even with DPDK enabled. but to be on the safe side, let's add 6 more minutes.
this helps to stop if we run into some unexpected infra issues, or to identify some very time consuming tests.
see also
https://docs.github.com/en/actions/using-workflows/workflow-syntax-for-github-actions#jobsjob_idtimeout-minutes