Feature request: update commit status while waiting for permission to test a PR

[ixdy]

The developers on our project feel safe to merge a PR when all of the commit checks are green, including usually our Jenkins run.

However, if the Jenkins plugin asks for permission to test a PR, it doesn't update the commit status, and so a developer may miss that the tests weren't run. (For example, this recently happened on kubernetes/kubernetes#11379.)

If the plugin would mark a commit as pending while waiting for permission to run tests, it would make it very obvious that tests hadn't run yet. (Extra bonus if the commit status mentioned that it was waiting for permission.)

[mikedanese]

+1 this option would be super helpful.

[pmorie]

+1

[bjoernhaeuser]

For me it looks like this will be closed by #398

[bjoernhaeuser]

Closing this in favor of #398