diff --git a/.github/workflows/main.yml b/.github/workflows/main.yml
index ada260060ad..5f2dd84a112 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/main.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/main.yml
@@ -12,109 +12,6 @@ concurrency: # On new push, cancel old workflows from the same PR, branch or tag
   cancel-in-progress: true
 
 jobs:
-  python-test:
-    name: Python tests
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-    strategy:
-      fail-fast: false
-      matrix:
-        python-version: ["2.7", "3.11"]
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-        with:
-          fetch-depth: 0 # To check which files changed: origin/master..HEAD
-      - uses: LizardByte/setup-python-action@master
-        with:
-          python-version: ${{matrix.python-version}}
-
-      - uses: actions/cache@v4
-        name: Setup cache for running pre-commit fast
-        with:
-          path: ~/.cache/pre-commit
-          key: pre-commit|${{ env.pythonLocation }}|${{ hashFiles('.pre-commit-config.yaml') }}
-
-      - run: echo "::add-matcher::.github/workflows/python-warning-matcher.json"
-        name: "Setup GitHub for reporting Python warnings as annotations in pull request code review"
-
-      - uses: pre-commit/action@v3.0.1
-        name: Run pre-commit checks (no spaces at end of lines, etc)
-        if: ${{ matrix.python-version != '2.7' }}
-        with:
-          extra_args: --all-files --verbose --hook-stage commit
-        env:
-          SKIP: no-commit-to-branch
-
-      - name: Install dependencies only needed for python 2
-        if: ${{ matrix.python-version == '2.7' }}
-        run: pip install enum
-
-      - name: Install dependencies only needed for python 3
-        if: ${{ matrix.python-version != '2.7' }}
-        run: pip install opentelemetry-api opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json opentelemetry-sdk pandas pytype toml wrapt
-
-      - name: Install common dependencies for Python ${{matrix.python-version}}
-        run: pip install future mock pytest-coverage pytest-mock
-
-      - name: Run Pytest for python 2 and get code coverage for Codecov
-        if: ${{ matrix.python-version == '2.7' }}
-        run: >
-          pytest
-          --cov=scripts --cov=ocaml/xcp-rrdd
-          scripts/ ocaml/xcp-rrdd -vv -rA
-          --junitxml=.git/pytest${{matrix.python-version}}.xml
-          --cov-report term-missing
-          --cov-report xml:.git/coverage${{matrix.python-version}}.xml
-        env:
-          PYTHONDEVMODE: yes
-
-      - name: Run Pytest for python 3 and get code coverage for Codecov
-        if: ${{ matrix.python-version != '2.7' }}
-        run: >
-          pytest
-          --cov=scripts --cov=ocaml/xcp-rrdd --cov=python3/
-          scripts/ ocaml/xcp-rrdd python3/ -vv -rA
-          --junitxml=.git/pytest${{matrix.python-version}}.xml
-          --cov-report term-missing
-          --cov-report xml:.git/coverage${{matrix.python-version}}.xml
-        env:
-          PYTHONDEVMODE: yes
-
-      - name: Upload Python ${{matrix.python-version}} coverage report to Codecov
-        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
-        with:
-          directory: .git
-          files: coverage${{matrix.python-version}}.xml
-          env_vars: OS,PYTHON
-          fail_ci_if_error: false
-          flags: python${{matrix.python-version}}
-          name: coverage${{matrix.python-version}}
-          verbose: true
-
-      - uses: dciborow/action-pylint@0.1.0
-        if: ${{ matrix.python-version != '2.7' }}
-        with:
-          reporter: github-pr-review
-          level: warning
-          # To be customized to cover remaining Python scripts:
-          glob_pattern: "**/*.py"
-        continue-on-error: true
-
-      - name: Run pytype checks
-        if: ${{ matrix.python-version != '2.7' }}
-        run: ./pytype_reporter.py
-        env:
-          PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.number }}
-          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
-          PYTYPE_REPORTER_DEBUG: True
-
-      - name: pyflakes
-        uses: reviewdog/action-pyflakes@v1
-        with:
-          github_token: ${{ secrets.github_token }}
-        continue-on-error: true
-
-
   ocaml-tests:
     name: Run OCaml tests
     runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
@@ -152,26 +49,3 @@ jobs:
 
       - name: Check disk space
         run: df -h || true
-
-  deprecation-test:
-    name: Deprecation tests
-    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
-
-    steps:
-      - name: Checkout code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
-
-      - name: Generate empty configuration for make to be happy
-        run: touch config.mk
-
-      - name: quality-gate
-        run: make quality-gate
-
-  test-sdk-builds:
-    name: Test SDK builds
-    uses: ./.github/workflows/generate-and-build-sdks.yml
-    with:
-      # Ensure you also update ocaml-tests
-      # when changing this value, to keep builds
-      # consistent
-      xapi_version: "v0.0.0"
diff --git a/.github/workflows/other.yml b/.github/workflows/other.yml
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..d65b7abe575
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.github/workflows/other.yml
@@ -0,0 +1,138 @@
+name: Build and test (other)
+
+on:
+  push:
+  pull_request:
+  schedule:
+    # run daily, this refreshes the cache
+    - cron: "13 2 * * *"
+
+concurrency: # On new push, cancel old workflows from the same PR, branch or tag:
+  group: ${{ github.workflow }}-${{ github.event.pull_request.number || github.ref }}
+  cancel-in-progress: true
+
+jobs:
+  python-test:
+    name: Python tests
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+    strategy:
+      fail-fast: false
+      matrix:
+        python-version: ["2.7", "3.11"]
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        with:
+          fetch-depth: 0 # To check which files changed: origin/master..HEAD
+      - uses: LizardByte/setup-python-action@master
+        with:
+          python-version: ${{matrix.python-version}}
+
+      - uses: actions/cache@v4
+        name: Setup cache for running pre-commit fast
+        with:
+          path: ~/.cache/pre-commit
+          key: pre-commit|${{ env.pythonLocation }}|${{ hashFiles('.pre-commit-config.yaml') }}
+
+      - run: echo "::add-matcher::.github/workflows/python-warning-matcher.json"
+        name: "Setup GitHub for reporting Python warnings as annotations in pull request code review"
+
+      - uses: pre-commit/action@v3.0.1
+        name: Run pre-commit checks (no spaces at end of lines, etc)
+        if: ${{ matrix.python-version != '2.7' }}
+        with:
+          extra_args: --all-files --verbose --hook-stage commit
+        env:
+          SKIP: no-commit-to-branch
+
+      - name: Install dependencies only needed for python 2
+        if: ${{ matrix.python-version == '2.7' }}
+        run: pip install enum
+
+      - name: Install dependencies only needed for python 3
+        if: ${{ matrix.python-version != '2.7' }}
+        run: pip install opentelemetry-api opentelemetry-exporter-zipkin-json opentelemetry-sdk pandas pytype toml wrapt
+
+      - name: Install common dependencies for Python ${{matrix.python-version}}
+        run: pip install future mock pytest-coverage pytest-mock
+
+      - name: Run Pytest for python 2 and get code coverage for Codecov
+        if: ${{ matrix.python-version == '2.7' }}
+        run: >
+          pytest
+          --cov=scripts --cov=ocaml/xcp-rrdd
+          scripts/ ocaml/xcp-rrdd -vv -rA
+          --junitxml=.git/pytest${{matrix.python-version}}.xml
+          --cov-report term-missing
+          --cov-report xml:.git/coverage${{matrix.python-version}}.xml
+        env:
+          PYTHONDEVMODE: yes
+
+      - name: Run Pytest for python 3 and get code coverage for Codecov
+        if: ${{ matrix.python-version != '2.7' }}
+        run: >
+          pytest
+          --cov=scripts --cov=ocaml/xcp-rrdd --cov=python3/
+          scripts/ ocaml/xcp-rrdd python3/ -vv -rA
+          --junitxml=.git/pytest${{matrix.python-version}}.xml
+          --cov-report term-missing
+          --cov-report xml:.git/coverage${{matrix.python-version}}.xml
+        env:
+          PYTHONDEVMODE: yes
+
+      - name: Upload Python ${{matrix.python-version}} coverage report to Codecov
+        uses: codecov/codecov-action@v3
+        with:
+          directory: .git
+          files: coverage${{matrix.python-version}}.xml
+          env_vars: OS,PYTHON
+          fail_ci_if_error: false
+          flags: python${{matrix.python-version}}
+          name: coverage${{matrix.python-version}}
+          verbose: true
+
+      - uses: dciborow/action-pylint@0.1.0
+        if: ${{ matrix.python-version != '2.7' }}
+        with:
+          reporter: github-pr-review
+          level: warning
+          # To be customized to cover remaining Python scripts:
+          glob_pattern: "**/*.py"
+        continue-on-error: true
+
+      - name: Run pytype checks
+        if: ${{ matrix.python-version != '2.7' }}
+        run: ./pytype_reporter.py
+        env:
+          PR_NUMBER: ${{ github.event.number }}
+          GITHUB_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.GITHUB_TOKEN }}
+          PYTYPE_REPORTER_DEBUG: True
+
+      - name: pyflakes
+        uses: reviewdog/action-pyflakes@v1
+        with:
+          github_token: ${{ secrets.github_token }}
+        continue-on-error: true
+
+  deprecation-test:
+    name: Deprecation tests
+    runs-on: ubuntu-22.04
+
+    steps:
+      - name: Checkout code
+        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+
+      - name: Generate empty configuration for make to be happy
+        run: touch config.mk
+
+      - name: quality-gate
+        run: make quality-gate
+
+  test-sdk-builds:
+    name: Test SDK builds
+    uses: ./.github/workflows/generate-and-build-sdks.yml
+    with:
+      # Ensure you also update ocaml-tests
+      # when changing this value, to keep builds
+      # consistent
+      xapi_version: "v0.0.0"