We are using Jenkins jobs to build our Java apps. The build creates packages which we store in the build archive. Each build has its own archive with the packages from that particular build.

We deploy these packages to various enviroments using promotions via the promoted builds plugin.

For example, we trigger the "QA1" promotion of Build #25 to deploy artifacts from Build 25's archive to our QA1 environment. Triggering the "QA2" promotion of this same build deploys the same artifacts to the QA2 environment, and so on.

Sometimes we'd like to promote artifacts from build #25 concurrently with the execution of a new build (say, build #30), but Jenkins will not do this for us. Instead, Jenkins pauses the promotion of the earlier build until the new build completes, or gets aborted.

For example, if build # 101 is in progress and I try to trigger a promotion of build #99, Jenkins will not start the promotion of build #99 until build #101 completes or is aborted.

It would be great if I could have promotions of earlier builds running concurrently with more recent builds.

Thanks!