Display the deployment description

[ogizanagi]

Hi 👋

What about adding the deployment description?

It seems to be unused for now (even on Github's /deployments page 😢 ). It is especially useful for a mono-repo with multiple apps inside that can be deployed. Adding the deployment description would allow to differentiate these easily.

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[kroehre]

@amitkumariiit I'm potentially interested in contributing this feature but the link from the welcome bot is broken

[kroehre]

@ashokirla (pinging since you've recently committed to this repo) What's the best way to contribute to this feature? This would be huge for us.

[ashokirla]

@kroehre Currently, we are not accepting contributions as we are going through platform changes. Please share the details of your desired experience. If you have any examples or mocks that will help too.

We will add it to our backlog.

[kroehre]

@ashokirla We have 2 use cases in mind:

1. Since our deployments run in a Github workflow, the slack integration shows github-actions[bot]. This is fine but we'd also like to know who started the workflow by including them in the deployment description.

2. Our deploy process has several steps such as running migrations and a blue/green rollback period. Assuming description changes are updated in slack (like Status is), we would like to use it to give more information about these steps.

[kroehre]

@ashokirla let me know if there's anything additional I can do to help with this. Thanks!

[DChalcraft]

We'd also like to add descriptions to our alerts - is there any news on this being made or any way we can assist? Cheers.