Ability to pre-approve workflows
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samddenty@gmail.com
I think it would be a great feature to be able to pre-approve workflows, that have been configured to require approval.
For some long builds I often commit them and do something until the build passes (or fails), often forgetting to approve it again. If I could pre-approve them, it would save time and prevent the need for waiting
CCI-I-235
Canny AI
Merged in a post:
Let users approve a hold step before it is reached
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adam@travelperk.com
Hi CircleCI team,
We’re using a hold step in our workflow to pause before deploying to staging. This lets developers review their changes and choose when to continue the deployment.
The issue is that you can’t approve the step until the workflow reaches it. That usually takes several minutes. After that, you click approve, and then wait several more minutes for the deployment itself to finish.
The result is that you’re stuck watching the build, waiting for the hold step to become clickable. It interrupts flow and makes it hard to focus on other tasks. If it were possible to approve the hold step ahead of time, the workflow could just carry on once it gets there. That would make the experience much smoother.
Would you consider supporting something like that?
Thanks,
Adam Hayward
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gavinclarkeuk@yahoo.co.uk
You can do this already if you don't make the approval step depend on other jobs.
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Daniel Nuzzo-Mueller
Sometimes a deployment is time critical but doesn't necessitate a different workflow
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Benjamin Humphrey
Please! This would be excellent. Same use case as the other commenter – hotfix releases.
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Amin Mirzaee
+1
Main use case for my team here is when we need to hotfix a deployment, so every second counts.