**Backport:** https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/8897Fixes#8893 by using a 30 second initialization timeout on the minio storage. Manually tested by configuring `MINIO_ENDPOINT=100.64.123.123`...
```
2025/08/14 11:29:29 ...s/storage/storage.go:157:initAttachments() [I] Initialising Attachment storage with type: minio
2025/08/14 11:29:29 ...les/storage/minio.go💯NewMinioStorage() [I] Creating Minio storage at 100.64.123.123:mfenniak-forgejo with base path attachments/
2025/08/14 11:29:59 routers/init.go:63:mustInit() [F] forgejo.org/modules/storage.Init failed: Get "http://100.64.123.123/mfenniak-forgejo/?versioning=": context deadline exceeded
```
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Co-authored-by: Mathieu Fenniak <mathieu@fenniak.net>
Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/forgejo/forgejo/pulls/8914
Reviewed-by: Mathieu Fenniak <mfenniak@noreply.codeberg.org>
Co-authored-by: forgejo-backport-action <forgejo-backport-action@noreply.codeberg.org>
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