A way to pause rolling out a new version

[chrmarti]

Not sure how simple and useful this would be, but if we had had a way to pause the rollout of 1.7.0, we could have bought us some time to make a decision and possibly build a 1.7.1 to continue the rollout with.

/cc @seanmcbreen @kieferrm @joaomoreno

[kieferrm]

One of the discussions that emerged is that we should start rolling out in chunks rather than to everyone at the same time. That would allow us to monitor the roll-out and potentially stop it if needed.

[bpasero]

@chrmarti what is wrong with unchecking the "released" checkbox on the builds page?

[chrmarti]

@bpasero My understanding is that unchecking that, will let those clients that already updated downgrade. Depending on how many clients these are and what the problem with the new version is, that might be undesirable. Having a way to pause the rollout to get time to decide if, e.g., a fix in a .1 version would make sense, could lessen the disruption for early updaters.

[bpasero]

Got it, you are right.

[chrmarti]

Tracked with #26200