Skip to content

[Feature flag] Rollout of `ci_mini_pipeline_gl_dropdown`

What

Remove the :ci_mini_pipeline_gl_dropdown feature flag which removes jQuery from the mini pipeline graph. Introduced in !52821 (merged)

This change is visible in:

Owners

  • Team: ~"group::continuous integration"
  • Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to: #g_ci
  • Best individual to reach out to: @mrincon

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

  • Enable on staging (/chatops run feature set ci_mini_pipeline_gl_dropdown 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 ci_mini_pipeline_gl_dropdown true
    • /chatops run feature set --project=gitlab-org/gitlab-ui ci_mini_pipeline_gl_dropdown true
    • /chatops run feature set --project=gitlab-com/www-gitlab-com ci_mini_pipeline_gl_dropdown 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 ci_mini_pipeline_gl_dropdown 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
    • Remove duplication in spec/frontend/pipelines/stage_spec.js
    • Rename ref="stageGlDropdown" to simply ref="dropdown" !55852 (merged)
    • #299899 (closed) should be closed along with the removal.
  • After the flag removal is deployed, clean up the feature flag by running chatops command in #production channel

Rollback Steps

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