[Feature flag] Enable Go implementation of UserMergeBranch
What
The UserMergeBranch RPC has been ported from Ruby to Go. This issue tracks the rollout of that feature flga.
Owners
- Team: Gitaly
- Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to:
#g_gitaly - Best individual to reach out to: @pks-t
Expectations
What release does this feature occur in first?
### What are we expecting to happen?
No change in behaviour should occur.
What might happen if this goes wrong?
This directly impacts the merging of MRs. Failure modes:
- pipelines may not be triggered or triggered incorrectly
- generation of merge commits may fail
What can we monitor to detect problems with this?
Roll Out Steps
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Read the documentation of feature flags -
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 -
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-comand in your team channel -
Announce on the issue that the flag has been enabled -
Remove feature flag and add changelog entry
Edited by Patrick Steinhardt