[Feature flag] Rollout of `maven_packages_group_level_improvements`
What
Remove the :maven_packages_group_level_improvements
feature flag ...
Owners
- Team: Package
- Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to:
#s_package
- Best individual to reach out to: @10io
Expectations
What are we expecting to happen?
The maven group level API endpoint for files should have better response times.
What might happen if this goes wrong?
- The maven group level API endpoint can stop working properly
- The nuget API endpoints can stop working properly
- The npm API endpoints can stop working properly
What can we monitor to detect problems with this?
Beta groups/projects
This is a global feature flag
Roll Out Steps
-
Enable on staging ( /chatops run feature set maven_packages_group_level_improvements 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
) - [-] If it is possible to perform an incremental rollout, this should be preferred. Proposed increments are:
10%
,50%
,100%
. Proposed minimum time between increments is 15 minutes. -
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
- In
-
Announce on the issue an estimated time this will be enabled on GitLab.com. Note: Once a feature rollout has started, it is not necessary to inform @sre-oncall
/@release-managers
at each stage of the gradual rollout. -
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. Ensure that the feature flag definition YAML file has been removed in the same MR that is removing the feature flag from the code -
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 maven_packages_group_level_improvements false
Edited by David Fernandez