[HOLD] Race condition between staging and production deploys

[roryabraham]

Problem

There is a race condition between staging and production mobile deploys that can cause production mobile deploys to fail.

For some background, when we deploy iOS and Android to staging what we're really doing is:

• Creating a production build
• Uploading it to the app store as a beta (TestFlight or Internal App Sharing)

Then when we deploy iOS and Android to production, all we're really doing is taking the staging build, submitting it for review + release.

What can happen is:

1. We have a deploy blocker affecting only one platform (say, web), and it's our last deploy blocker.
2. The deployer CP's a fix, and as soon as that fix is verified closes the checklist (before the staging deploy from that CP has completed on all platforms, which often takes about an hour)
3. The production deploy starts before the staging deploy finishes, so when we try to submit the latest version for review + release, Fastlane barfs 🤮 because the build with that version hasn't been uploaded to the app store yet.

Here's a real-world example: https://expensify.slack.com/archives/C07J32337/p1675468753414159

Solution

Let's make it so that a production mobile deploy will wait for the staging mobile deploy of the same version to finish before it begins.

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