debian-mirror-gitlab/.gitlab/issue_templates/Feature Flag Roll Out.md
2020-10-24 23:57:45 +05:30

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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?

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

  • Enable on staging
  • Test on staging
  • Ensure that documentation has been updated
  • Enable on GitLab.com for individual groups/projects listed above and verify behaviour
  • Coordinate a time to enable the flag with #production and #g_delivery on slack.
  • Announce on the issue an estimated time this will be enabled on GitLab.com
  • Enable on GitLab.com by running chatops command in #production
  • Cross post chatops slack command to #support_gitlab-com (more guidance when this is necessary in the dev docs) 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 by running chatops command in #production channel

/label ~"feature flag"