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[Feature flag] Delete flag 'Restrict access to jobs that use `CI_DEBUG_TRACE=True`'

What

Remove the :restrict_access_to_build_debug_mode feature flag. The flag is on by default.

Owners

  • Team: verify:continuous integration
  • Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to: #g_ci
  • Best individual to reach out to: Allison Browne

Expectations

What are we expecting to happen?

What might happen if this goes wrong?

What can we monitor to detect problems with this?

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/gitlab project
  • gitlab-org/gitlab-com groups
  • ...

Roll Out Steps

  • [-] Confirm that QA tests pass with the feature flag enabled (if you're unsure how, contact the relevant stable counterpart in the Quality department)
  • [-] Enable on staging (/chatops run feature set feature_name true --staging)
  • [-] Test on staging
  • [-] Ensure that documentation has been updated
  • [-] Enable on GitLab.com for individual groups/projects listed above and verify behaviour (/chatops run feature set --project=gitlab-org/gitlab feature_name true)
  • [-] Coordinate a time to enable the flag with the SRE oncall and release managers
    • In #production mention @sre-oncall and @release-managers. Once an SRE on call and Release Manager on call confirm, you can proceed with the rollout
  • [-] Announce on the issue an estimated time this will be enabled on GitLab.com
  • [-] Enable on GitLab.com by running chatops command in #production (/chatops run feature set feature_name true)
  • [-] 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

Note: Skipped many steps skipped due to the flag being enabled by default

Rollback Steps

  • This feature can be disabled by running the following Chatops command:
/chatops run feature set --project=gitlab-org/gitlab feature_name false
Edited by Allison Browne