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allow empty workflow jobs
It would be useful to allow "empty" (need a better name) workflow steps with the following properties: can take part in dependency chains, i.e. can require other jobs to complete can be required by other jobs to complete no build steps and require no build agent to run (similar to "approval" jobs) Such jobs could be useful in structuring and organising workflows.They would save repetition allowing cleaner, DRYer workflow codeand the diagrams would be more unserstandable.For example, imagine the following scenario: 3 build steps which run in parallel when all 3 succeed, you want 3 deploy steps to run in parallel Currently you'd do it like this: workflows: version: 2.1 build_then_deploy: jobs: - build1 - build2 - build3 - deploy1: requires: - build1 - build2 - build3 - deploy2: requires: - build1 - build2 - build3 - deploy3: requires: - build1 - build2 - build3 The resultant, confusing diagram would look like this: build1 --+-- deploy1 |build2 --+-- deploy2 |build3 --+-- deploy3 Adding an "empty" job would allow you to refactor, like this: workflows: version: 2.1 build_then_deploy: jobs: - build1 - build2 - build3 - builds_completed: type: empty requires: - build1 - build2 - build3 - deploy1: requires: - builds_completed - deploy2: requires: - builds_completed - deploy3: requires: - builds_completed The code is more natural to read and the diagram would be less confusing: build1 --+ +-- deploy1 | |build2 --+-- builds_completed --+-- deploy2 | |build3 --+ +-- deploy3 CCI-I-855
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