Not good at "Passive waiting" means?

On Saturday, November 5, 2016 at 2:20:04 AM UTC+5:30, Jason Whittington 
wrote:
>
> GoCD is not good at "passive waiting" which can be a really frustrating 
> limitation. There are many reasons why you might want to:
>
>    - Start a pipeline
>    - Notice that an external event needs to happen (like "the server 
>    needs to come online")
>    - Continue executing
>    
> This isn't a big deal if the event is going to happen in a matter of 
> minutes but if it is going to take hours then we really need another 
> mechanism.
>
> One such mechanism could be:
>
>    - Start a pipeline
>    - Run automatically until you get to a manual stage, then wait
>    - *Have an external service trigger the manual stage (hours or days 
>    later)*
>    - Profit!
>
> I see that there is an API that does this that has been in the product for 
> years (per this blog 
> <http://foldingair.blogspot.com/2014/03/thouthworks-go-asynchronously-trigger.html>
> ):
>
>    curl --data "" 
> http://user:password@server:8153/go/run/uat_start_FullPipelineTest/11/TestingComplete
>  
> <http://GoAgent:mV5bGwvvDP3HZX5B6RZh@vs-bob:8153/go/run/uat_start_FullPipelineTest/10/TestingComplete>
>
> People have been asking for this to be supported for two years.  Can we 
> get that into an upcoming release?  Pretty please?  :)
>
>
>
>
>

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