save_cache should be backgroundable | Feature Requests

save_cache should be backgroundable

Swrobel

It's useful that run steps can be set to background: true but this doesn't work for save_cache steps which can take up to 30 seconds in my experience. These don't need to hold up the rest of the run and would make my whole process a lot faster (as I have 4 save_cache calls)

CCI-I-1226

November 11, 2019

Manuel Fittko

Same holds for restore_cache - all we need is another step that would allow us to wait for the previously backgrounded _cache steps. This would be huge as it would save a huge amount of time in the build steps of our workflows.