Update commit status outside pull request

[bpoland]

Does anyone know if there's a way to update a commit status when not building a pull request?

Our deployment infrastructure uses the commit status on master to determine whether it's safe to deploy. We're using https://github.com/jenkinsci/pipeline-githubnotify-step-plugin to do that right now but it would be nice to only use one plugin :)

[aaronjwhiteside]

This would fit in great with the idea of representing the entire repository and current branch as groovy objects... just like pullRequest is done now.

[blundercon]

Is someone working on this ? This would be a pretty handy feature. Currently, the options to interact with Github's APIs are kind of limited in the sense that we'd need install multiple plugins.