[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?

%13.5.

### 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?

https://dashboards.gitlab.net/d/000000199/gitaly-feature-status?orgId=1&refresh=30s&var-environment=gprd&var-method=UserMergeBranch&var-prometheus=prometheus-01-inf-gprd

Roll Out Steps

  • 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-com and 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