Request: Ability to approve circleci jobs

[benatshippabo]

Is there an existing issue that is already proposing this?

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe it

No response

Describe the solution you'd like

Can we also have the ability to auto approve workflows based on github events as well? For example, we have the following workflow:

workflows:
  version: 2
  build:
    jobs:
      - server_unit_tests
      - server_integration_test
      - frontend_tests
      - e2e_tests_trigger:
          type: approval
      - e2e_tests:
          requires:
            - e2e_tests_trigger

Instead of triggering the pipeline, can we also have this action auto approve based on github actions? My goal is to have the job auto approve based on a label merge

Teachability, documentation, adoption, migration strategy

on:
  pull_request:
    types: [labeled]
jobs:
  trigger-circleci:
    if: ${{ github.event.label.name == 'merge' }}
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: <customize name>
        id: <customize id>
        uses: CircleCI-Public/[email protected]
        with:
          - APPROVAL_TRIGGER=e2e_tests_trigger
        env:
          CCI_TOKEN: ${{ secrets.CCI_TOKEN }}

What is the motivation / use case for changing the behavior?

Need a way for merge queues to be able to auto trigger circleci approval jobs

[servercimen]

We have the same need, it would be awesome to have this feature.