The gate task does not fail if a release it monitors (added as a dependency) fails. This makes monitoring 10-20 subreleases quite hard. Monitoring subreleases would greatly benefit from adding a FAILING state to the gate task.
by: Andrei-Costin L. | over a year ago | Templates & Releases
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We believe this is an excellent idea. It had been previously explored but was found to be challenging to implement. We may revisit the possibility if a larger number of our users show their support for this idea by upvoting it.
We have planned this change for the upcoming 25.1 release, scheduled for 2025 Q2.
We introduced this change in the 25.1 release. As a follow-up, we're working on improving how the status is updated when a dependency is added, as it's currently not reflected. We're also adding an option (a checkbox) to allow a release to fail if at least one of its dependent releases fails. See release notes for more details:
https://docs.digital.ai/release/docs/release-notes/release-notes-release#gate-task-failing-status