release-tools should be the SSOT for autodeploy blockers
The following discussion from gitlab-com/chatops!151 (merged) should be addressed:
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@nolith started a discussion: (+1 comment) I think this feature does not belong here.
The SSOT if release-tools production checks job.
This was already fixed there, and we are expanding it to also check prometheous.
We should not implement the same thing twice.
I suggest we expand release-tools job to ignore the monthly release issue and post the blocker information on slack if a slack channel is provided as job trigger variable.
Edited by Alessio Caiazza