Block steps can be locked down

[raynix]

So I'd hope there's an option to make pack and deliver step locked down(greyed out) until deploy for QA is successful.

[sj26]

We spoke about this over email! But here, for posterity, you can do this by splitting your pipeline into two pieces, and only uploading the second after it should be unblockable.

# .buildkite/pipeline.yml
steps:
- command: echo building a thing
- block: Test the thing?
- command: echo testing a thing
- wait
- command: buildkite-agent pipeline upload .buildkite/pipeline.deploy.yml

# .buildkite/pipeline.deploy.yml
steps:
- block: Deploy the thing?
- command: echo deploy the thing

The first one does a couple of steps and includes a block step, and only uploads the second pipeline at the very end, meaning the deploy button won't appear or be unblockable until you know that it's a deployable build.