'needs:' with logical OR

Release notes

Allows job to start if either one of its dependencies specified in needs: is satisfied

Problem to solve

I want to be able to configure a stage with jobs so that either one of them being successful would unblock the next stage. Ex: first stage would have a:

• regular job that would be doing an API call and might fail
• manual job that would be doing nothing, but unblocking the execution of next stage

Then the pipeline would continue when either of jobs succeeded. Real life example:

I want to introduce control/feature flag stage for merge request pipeline. This will be a very first stage of pipeline with two jobs:

1. checks if we already have deployed dynamic environment for this merge request or fail
2. manual job that would be an empty job

Build stage job would be requiring either of 1. or 2. jobs to succeed.

As a result I will have my pipeline run for already deployed environments automatically but require a human interaction for a fresh setup.