Add a No-Op Job Type that does Nothing
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Hoganpet
In developing complicated workflows with multiple fanned out jobs, it can be really time consuming to manage lists of required jobs to "join" the work flow from multiple fanned out jobs. Especially as one changes what comes before or after the "join" point. Currently, we have to setup a job that kicks off a vm that does nothing. But that wastes resources spinning up a vm. Adding a no-op job type that does not require a vm to be spun up would save time and resource, but allow workflow authors to maintain that join point more easily.
CCI-I-1636
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Henna Abbas
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We offer no-op jobs : https://circleci.com/docs/guides/orchestrate/orchestration-cookbook/#use-no-op-jobs-to-create-a-cleaner-workflow-graph
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villesau@msn.com
I'd like to have job that only lists requirements which can then be required by other jobs.
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François Villeneuve
The reason I need this for is that it could allow me to play with dependencies so as to make CircleCI order tasks in a way that is less messy than the currently dictated order.