The 'production' environment has a wait timer of 15 minutes and required reviewers. When does the deploy job that references environment: production start its steps?
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Environment protection rules gate the job: wait timers and required reviewers must be satisfied before the job runs steps.
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jobs.<id>.environment binds the job to an environment's secrets and protection rules. Wait timers delay start; required reviewers must approve; branch policies may restrict which refs can deploy. These are enforcement controls, not advisory. GITHUB_TOKEN does not bypass reviewer rules. Environments work on GitHub.com and GHES (availability features vary). Use wait timers as a last-chance abort window for production. Combine with concurrency groups to avoid overlapping prod deploys.