debian-mirror-gitlab/.gitlab/issue_templates/Feature Flag Roll Out.md
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<!-- Title suggestion: [Feature flag] Enable description of feature -->
## What
Remove the `:feature_name` feature flag ...
## Owners
- Team: NAME_OF_TEAM
- Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to: `#g_TEAM_NAME`
- Best individual to reach out to: NAME
## Expectations
### What are we expecting to happen?
### What might happen if this goes wrong?
### What can we monitor to detect problems with this?
<!-- Which dashboards from https://dashboards.gitlab.net are most relevant? Sentry errors reports can alse be useful to review -->
## Beta groups/projects
If applicable, any groups/projects that are happy to have this feature turned on early. Some organizations may wish to test big changes they are interested in with a small subset of users ahead of time for example.
- `gitlab-org/gitlab` project
- `gitlab-org`/`gitlab-com` groups
- ...
## Roll Out Steps
- [ ] Confirm that QA tests pass with the feature flag enabled (if you're unsure how, contact the relevant [stable counterpart in the Quality department](https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/engineering/quality/#individual-contributors))
- [ ] Enable on staging (`/chatops run feature set feature_name true --staging`)
- [ ] Test on staging
- [ ] Ensure that documentation has been updated
- [ ] Enable on GitLab.com for individual groups/projects listed above and verify behaviour (`/chatops run feature set --project=gitlab-org/gitlab feature_name true`)
- [ ] Coordinate a time to enable the flag with the SRE oncall and release managers
- In `#production` mention `@sre-oncall` and `@release-managers`. Once an SRE on call and Release Manager on call confirm, you can proceed with the rollout
- [ ] Announce on the issue an estimated time this will be enabled on GitLab.com
- [ ] Enable on GitLab.com by running chatops command in `#production` (`/chatops run feature set feature_name true`)
- [ ] Cross post chatops Slack command to `#support_gitlab-com` ([more guidance when this is necessary in the dev docs](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/feature_flags/controls.html#where-to-run-commands)) and in your team channel
- [ ] Announce on the issue that the flag has been enabled
- [ ] Remove feature flag and add changelog entry
- [ ] After the flag removal is deployed, [clean up the feature flag](https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/development/feature_flags/controls.html#cleaning-up) by running chatops command in `#production` channel
## Rollback Steps
- [ ] This feature can be disabled by running the following Chatops command:
```
/chatops run feature set --project=gitlab-org/gitlab feature_name false
```
/label ~"feature flag"