[Feature flag] Rollout of `main_branch_over_master`
Feature
This feature uses the :main_branch_over_master
feature flag!
Owners
- Team: Create: Source Code Backend
- Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to:
#g_create_source-code-be
- Best individual to reach out to: Igor Drozdov or Nick Thomas
- PM: Sarah Waldner
Stakeholders
The Rollout Plan
- Partial Rollout on GitLab.com with beta groups
- Rollout on GitLab.com for a certain period (How long)
- Percentage Rollout on GitLab.com
- Rollout Feature for everyone as soon as it's ready
Beta Groups/Projects:
-
gitlab-org/gitlab
project -
gitlab-org
/gitlab-com
groups - ...
Expectations
What are we expecting to happen?
What might happen if this goes wrong?
What can we monitor to detect problems with this?
Rollout Timeline
Initial Rollout
-
Enable on GitLab.com globally -
Verify behaviour (See Beta Groups) and add details with screenshots as a comment on this issue -
Make the feature flag enabled by default i.e. Change default_enabled
totrue
-
Cross post chatops slack command to #support_gitlab-com
(more guidance when this is necessary in the dev docs) and in your team channel
Cleanup
This is an important phase, that should be either done in the next Milestone or as soon as possible. For the cleanup phase, please follow our documentation on how to clean up the feature flag.
-
Announce on the issue that the flag has been enabled -
Clean up tech debt in the spec suite - the FF is currently explicitly disabled there -
Remove :feature_name
feature flag-
Remove all references to the feature flag from the codebase -
Remove the YAML definitions for the feature from the repository -
Create a Changelog Entry
-
-
Clean up the feature flag from all environments by running this chatops command in #production
channel/chatops run feature delete some_feature
.
Final Step
-
Close this rollout issue for the feature flag after the feature flag is removed from the codebase.
Rollback Steps
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This feature can be disabled by running the following Chatops command:
/chatops run feature set --project=gitlab-org/gitlab feature_name false