Environment Approval Workflow Unusable
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Problem to solve
If a dev wants to deploy release pipeline created some time in past, they currently go to the job, and it is expected there is some Approval workflow that can be kicked off. Instead, it says Waiting for Approvals. If they are not a Maintainer or above, they can't even see who the approvers are. So right now they have to ask around the team. (fixed in #383411 (closed))
Once they find the approver, they have to ask that person through email/IM/manual method outside of Gitlab, point them to the specific job and environment and ask them to Approve.
Approvers then get to the same page with "View Environment Details Page" link - from the job itself. If click on this link, it doesn't filter for that job, it shows ALL jobs. There's no way to filter to it. Sometimes there are 50 pages of jobs.
Approver has to scroll through to find the job manually.
Original description
Please see Environment Approval Workflow Unusable – GitLab, Inc. for the details. I also entered them in my Edifecs Gitlab Support Project here for my own ease of understanding where our features are in terms of processing. That link is here: Environment Approval Workflow Unusable (#17) · Issues · GitLab.com / account-management / Commercial / Edifecs Inc · GitLab
Proposal
Add a button to the approvals page that sends a configured notification to the approvers.
The notification can be configured to be
- an e-mail (default)
- a Slack message
- a GitLab TODO
The notification should contain information and a direct link to the approval page of the given deployment.
Intended users
- Delaney (Development Team Lead)
- Rachel (Release Manager)
- Simone (Software Engineer in Test)
- Allison (Application Ops)
- Ingrid (Infrastructure Operator)
Feature Usage Metrics
- MAU who trigger a notification to be sent
Does this feature require an audit event?
No.
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