docs: CI rules: manual does not set 'allowed to fail' automatically
What does this MR do?
I looked into why rules:manual
might be causing pipelines to block (internal: slack thread)
Quoting from a code review:
NOTE: Unlike
when: manual
,rules:manual
is implyingallow_failure: false
by default. We need to explicitly passallow_failure: true
in this case.
Set of tests on gitlab.com:
I've added a section for documenting how rules
differs from previous behaviour, and noted it in places where manual jobs were documented as non-blocking.
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