ci: skipping student versions when user is authenticated (#3564)

* ci: skipping student versions when user is authenticated

* chore: adding changelog file 3564.maintenance.md [dependabot-skip]

* fix: missing space

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Co-authored-by: pyansys-ci-bot <92810346+pyansys-ci-bot@users.noreply.github.com>

.ci/build_matrix.sh

@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ LATEST=3 # for 'latest-ubuntu' and 'latest-ubuntu-student'
 ONLY_UBUNTU="${ONLY_UBUNTU:-false}"
 
 # Do not process more than the $AUTH_USER_LIMIT_VERSIONS versions in above list
-AUTH_USER_LIMIT_VERSIONS="${AUTH_USER_LIMIT_VERSIONS:-3}"
+AUTH_USER_LIMIT_VERSIONS="${AUTH_USER_LIMIT_VERSIONS:-2}"
 AUTH_USER_LIMIT=$((LATEST+AUTH_USER_LIMIT_VERSIONS*3)) 
 
 # Students licenses only last a year, hence $NON_AUTH_USER_LIMIT_VERSIONS cannot be more than 2.
@@ -87,13 +87,20 @@ for version in "${versions[@]}"; do
     echo "  - Student: $ON_STUDENT"
     echo "  - Ubuntu: $ON_UBUNTU"
 
-    # Early exiting if on Ubuntu only
+    # Skipping if on Ubuntu only
     if [[ "$ON_UBUNTU" != "true" && "$ONLY_UBUNTU" == "true" ]]; then
         echo "Skipping non-ubuntu versions"
         echo ""
         continue
     fi
 
+    # Skipping student versions on auth_user
+    if [[ "$auth_user" == "true" && "$ON_STUDENT" == "true" ]]; then
+        echo "Skipping student versions when user is authenticated"
+        echo ""
+        continue
+    fi
+
     # main logic
     if [[ "$auth_user" == "true" ]]; then
         if [[ "$extended_testing" == "true" ]]; then

doc/changelog.d/3564.maintenance.md

@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+ci: skipping student versions when user is authenticated