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Enable confidential_epics feature flag by default

What

Remove the :confidential_epics feature flag.

Owners

  • Team: Plan team
  • Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to: #g_plan
  • Best individual to reach out to: rajat(frontend) jprovaznik(backend)

Expectations

### What are we expecting to happen?

New epics can be marked as confidential - confidential epics are not visible to non-member users. Confidential epics can be assigned only with confidential subepics and confidential issues.

What might happen if this goes wrong?

The feature doesn't work as expected? 🤷 There shouldn't be a performance impact, a query which might be slower because of this confidential flag was tested/enabled independently before.

What can we monitor to detect problems with this?

Errors and performance of epics-related page.

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

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 Jan Provaznik