Variable support for when keyword

Problem to solve

I frequently reuse CI jobs across projects with includes. There are cases where I want to dynamically set the when behavior of jobs between manual and on_success (e.g. continuous delivery with manually-triggered deployment vs continuous deployment). Currently, GitLab does not support variables in the when keyword and throws a template error.

Intended users

• Release Managers

Further details

Proposal

Allow the GitLab variable expansion mechanism to evaluate variables in the when keyword

Permissions and Security

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Documentation

Testing

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

Ability to modify when behavior based on a variable's value

What is the type of buyer?

Core/Free

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