[Experiment Rollout] in_product_guidance_environments_webide - Alert Users to Adding Environments to Pipelines

What

Track the status of an experiment through to removal.

1. Experiment key: in_product_guidance_environments_webide
2. Framework: gitlab_experiment
3. Feature flag name: in_product_guidance_environments_webide

This is an experiment tracking issue for: #292747 (closed) using the scoped experiment label.

As well as defining the experiment rollout and cleanup, this issue incorporates the relevant Feature Flag Roll Out steps.

Owners

• Team: group::release
• Most appropriate slack channel to reach out to: #s_release
• Best individual to reach out to: @afontaine @kbychu

Expectations

What are we expecting to happen?

People learn more about deployment jobs!

What might happen if this goes wrong?

People get frustrated at the new alert in the WebIDE

What can we monitor to detect problems with this?

Error problems not really relevant, but a high number of users that have dismissed the alert suggests it is not useful/an annoyance.

Tracked data

Note: you can utilize CXL calculator to determine if your experiment has reached signifigance, it also includes an estimate for how much longer an experiment will need to run for before reaching signifigance.

Staging Test

Experiment tracking log

Experiment Results

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 experiment code and feature flag and add changelog entry - a separate cleanup issue might be required
• After the flag removal is deployed, clean up the feature flag by running chatops command in #production channel
• Assign to the product manager to update the knowledge base (if applicable)

Rollback Steps

• This feature can be disabled by running the following Chatops command:

/chatops run feature set feature_name false