Manual Only Mode

[ralphcallaway]

In a few cases working on projects where all the deployments are handled by a separate process. Would be nice to have a config variable to disable the pull request automation so we don't generate extra build time.

if [ ! -z "$MANUAL_ONLY" ]; then ./sync.sh

[ChuckJonas]

are you using the pipeline for anything else? Just the production sync?

Could probably just have a separate pipelines file thats significantly reduced and controlled by a yeoman param

[ralphcallaway]

mostly production sync, and hot fix package generation (which is basically none of the PRs if we have a big project, and very few relative to standard release deploys)

kind of thing this is more of an environmental variable thing, what would the benefit of having a reduced pipeline file and related scripts be?

[ChuckJonas]

Mainly just to take the option off the table if it shouldn't be done due to governance/change management. But if it's still used in some instances, then a ENV makes more sense.

DISABLE_PR_PIPELINE?

There's also already an exit check on the PR pipeline that's hardcoded to make sure it only runs on master. We could make the production branch configurable via ENV and that way you just don't set it if you don't want PR to run.

Downside is that requires an additional one time setup/upgrade step