[Feature flag] Whats New dropdown
What
Tracking the status of the :whats_new_dropdown
feature flag through to removal.
Initial MVC: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/growth/product/-/issues/1487
Owners
- Team: ~"group::retention"
- Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to:
#g_retention
- Best individual to reach out to: @jayswain
Expectations
### What are we expecting to happen?
What might happen if this goes wrong?
- Problems accessing the content in the Question mark menu in Gitlab.com
What can we monitor to detect problems with this?
- Support volume, interactions
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.
n/a as this is a very simple and subtle change specific to gitlab.com users
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
Edited by Jay