Forward deployment - warn users on "Retry"

Problem to solve

As of Gitlab 12.9, when a deployment job fails because a newer deployment was deployed first, the following error message shows up for the failed job. The user is not further warned when clicking the retry button.

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Intended users

• Rachel (Release Manager)
• Sasha (Software Developer)
• Devon (DevOps Engineer)

Proposal

• Add an alert modal when the Retry button is clicked
• Modal contents:

### Are you sure you want to retry this job?

You're about to retry a job that failed because it attempted to deploy code that is older than the latest deployment. Retrying this job could result in overwriting the environment with the older source code. [More information](#)

Are you sure you want to proceed?

[Cancel](tertiary button) [Retry job](Primary button, danger)

• After completing the modal by using the Retry job button, the page will refresh, the modal will have disappeared, and the job's status will have changed to running.

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Availability & Testing

What does success look like, and how can we measure that?

What is the type of buyer?

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