let people define progress in ci steps

[castdrian]

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it'd be nice if non github-pages jobs could also be configured to display the progress bar, either automatically based on the amount of jobs in the workflow or manually by defining percentages per step

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[castdrian]

thanks for the useless input ChatGPT

[AhmedSAAhmed]

This is a great feature request and definitely gets my upvote!

Currently, the progress bar you see for GitHub Pages is a special, hardcoded UI component that GitHub built exclusively for their native Pages deployment lifecycle. As of right now, there is no public workflow syntax or toolkit command to trigger that specific visual progress widget for standard or custom jobs.

The Current Workaround:
While we wait for native UI support, the best way to communicate step-by-step progress without digging into the logs is by utilizing Job Summaries ($GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY).

You can have your steps append a markdown-based progress bar to the summary as they complete. For example:

- name: Step 1 Complete
  run: echo "🚀 Build Stage: [██████░░░░░░░░░] 40%" >> $GITHUB_STEP_SUMMARY

It doesn't update dynamically on the main workflow graph, but it does give your team a clean, visual snapshot of exactly where the pipeline is at when they check the summary page.

Being able to define progress: 50% natively in a step definition would be a massive UX win for complex CI pipelines, though!

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