[Feature flag] Rollout of personal_snippet_reference_filters

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What

Remove the :personal_snippet_reference_filters feature flag ...

Owners

• Team: Create::Editor
• Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to: #g_create_editor
• Best individual to reach out to: @vij or @fran

Expectations

What are we expecting to happen?

References to resources added to PersonalSnippet comments and descriptions should be converted via the GFM/AbstractReferenceFilter to GitLab references (docs) on create/update and preview of changes.

What might happen if this goes wrong?

References may not be generated correctly

What can we monitor to detect problems with this?

Beta groups/projects/users

We can beta test by enabling for individual users, e.g. vij or fjsanpedro

Roll Out Steps

• Enable on staging
• Test on staging
• Ensure that documentation has been updated
• Enable on GitLab.com for individual users 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