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