how to trigger a notification step when the previous step failed?

[Xinyu Wang]

I don't mean the after-script, the challenge is the step that hosts the after-script don't even get executed.

Consider this pseudo pipeline yaml:

definitions:

    - step: &step1-will-pass

        script:

            - step1 script here

    - step: &step2-will-fail

        script:

            - step2 script here

    - step: &notify-build-status

        after-script:

            - notification script here

pipelines:

    custom:

        'release':

            - step: *step1-will-pass

            - step: *step2-will-fail

            - step: *notify-build-status

In the custom pipeline 'release', when step2-will-fail gets executed and failed, the pipeline stops right there, The notify-build-status step will not be executed.

[Saxea _Flowie_]

Hi @Xinyu Wang ,

Can't you move the notification to step-2?

There is a discussion for a similar problem and two related feature requests here and here.