Skip deploy to review app if MR is set to MWPS

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Problem to solve

When creating an MR that is quickly set to merge automatically when the pipeline succeeds, we can speed up that pipeline slightly by cutting out unnecessary steps. Specifically, deploying to a review app is completely unnecessary if the MR is just going to be merged immediately (and the review app deleted).

Intended users

  • Sasha (Software Developer)

Further details

Proposal

Identify jobs related to temporary deployments, and skip them when the MR is set to MWPS. We could possibly require the user to manually identify these jobs, but we can probably infer well enough to not need manual identification.

If the pipeline has a job to destroy the review app defined in the .gitlab-ci.yml file and the MR is set to delete the branch we shouldn't spin up a review app

Also in order to have better visibility the review App button should be disabled with a tool tip explaining that Review Apps will be skipped.

UX TBD

Permissions and Security

Documentation

Testing

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

What is the type of buyer?

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Edited Aug 28, 2025 by 🤖 GitLab Bot 🤖
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